Statutory Instruments
2009 No. 353
Rating And Valuation, England
The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2009
Made
23rd February 2009
Laid before Parliament
3rd March 2009
Coming into force
1st April 2009
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45(1)(d) and (9) and 143(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
Citation, application and commencement
1. These Regulations—
(a) may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2009;
(b) apply in relation to England;
(c) apply in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 2009;
(d) shall come force on 1st April 2009.
Hereditaments not prescribed for the purposes of section 45(1)(d) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988
2. Regulation 4(g) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008( 2 ) shall apply as if the reference to £2,200 were to £15,000.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
John Healey
Minister of State
Department for Communities and Local Government
23rd February 2009
1988 c. 41 ; section 45(1)(d) was amended, and subsection (9) inserted, by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) , Schedule 5, paragraphs 23(2) and (3) and 79(3). These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ); see the entry in Schedule 1 for the Local Government Finance Act 1988. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) , they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.