Article 2 Amendment to rateable value limits

For article 3(1) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997^f1 there shall be substituted the following:

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(1)

The amount prescribed as the maximum amount of the rateable value for the purposes of section 43(6B)(b) (mandatory relief for certain hereditaments) of the 1988 Act shall be—

(a)

in the case of a hereditament a part or the whole of which is used as a public house or petrol filling station (as each is defined in article 1(2) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Public Houses and Petrol Filling Stations) (England) Order 2001^f2), £9,000:

(b)

in the case of any other hereditament, £6,000.”.