# The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997, Article 2: Designation of rural areas


(1) There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 42A (rural settlement lists) of the 1988 Act—
(a) each parish, and each unparished area, mentioned or described in either of the Schedules to each of the housing orders, and
(b) each area mentioned or described in article 2(c) of each of those orders specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1,
including any part of such an area which is, by virtue of its omission from the area delineated on any map referred to in such an order, not designated by such an order as a rural area;
(c) the parishes named in the second column of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in the counties named in the first column, and
(d) the areas described in Part 2 of that Schedule.
(2) In this article—
‘the housing orders’ means the orders specified in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1, being orders designating rural areas for the purposes of section 17 (the right to acquire) of the Housing Act 1996 and section 1AA(3)(a) (additional right to enfranchise) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967, and
references to grid lines are to lines on the Ordnance Survey National Grid.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2792/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-rural-settlements-england-order-1997/article-2
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