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The Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) Order 1993

S.I. 1993/542 · Made 8 March 1993

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RATING AND VALUATION

Made 8th March 1993

Laid before Parliament 11th March 1993

Coming into force 1st April 1993

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 66(9) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988f1, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 41.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Definition of domestic property
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

2Definition of domestic property

Section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988f1 shall be amended—

(a)

in subsection (1), by the substitution for the words “Subject to subsections (2) and (2B) below” of the words “Subject to subsections (2), (2B) and (2E) below”; and

(b)

after subsection (2D), by the insertion of the following subsection—

“(2E)

Property is not domestic property if it is timeshare accommodation within the meaning of the Timeshare Act 1992.”f2.

Signature

Michael Howard

Secretary of State for the Environment

5th March 1993

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

8th March 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends, with effect from 1st April 1993, section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which defines domestic property for the purposes of Part III (non-domestic rating) of that Act.

The definition of domestic property is amended to exclude timeshare accommodation.