Statutory Instruments
2022 No. 217
Rating And Valuation, England
The Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) (England) Order 2022
Made
3rd March 2022
Laid before Parliament
8th March 2022
Coming into force
1st April 2023
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 66(9) and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988( 1 ), makes the following Order.
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) (England) Order 2022 and comes into force on 1st April 2023.
(2) This Order extends to England and Wales.
Amendment of the Local Government Finance Act 1988
2. In section 66( 2 ) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (domestic property), in subsection (2B)—
(a) at the end of paragraph (a), omit “and”;
(b) after paragraph (b) insert—
“ (c) the whole of the building or self-contained part of the building was available for letting commercially, as self-catering accommodation, for short periods totalling 140 days or more in the year prior to the year beginning with the end of the day in relation to which the question referred to in paragraph (a) is being considered, and
(d) the short periods for which it was so let amounted in total to at least 70 days. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Kemi Badenoch
Minister of State
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
3rd March 2022
Section 66 was amended by section 117 of, and paragraph 70(1) of Schedule 14 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) , by section 1 of the Caravans (Standard Community Charge and Rating) Act 1991 (c. 2) and section 6 of the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17) . Subsection (2B) was inserted by article 3 of S.I. 1990/162 . Further amendments were made to section 66 by S.I. 1991/474 , 1993/452 , 2010/682 , 2010/2960 and 2013/468 .