Regulation 2 Interpretation

Except in so far as the context otherwise requires—

In these regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say:—

• “the Act” means the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968;

• “the Act of 1930” means the Land Drainage Act 1930;

• “the Act of 1961” means the Land Drainage Act 1961;

• “the Act of 1967” means the General Rate Act 1967;

• “agricultural buildings” has the meaning assigned to it by section 26(4) of the Act of 1967 ;

• “agricultural land” has the meaning assigned to it by section 29 of the Act of 1930;

• “amendment” includes addition;

• “annual value” means annual value for the purposes of drainage rates;

• “annual value adjustment” , in relation to a hereditament, means a determination made by a drainage board pursuant to section 30 of the Act specifying a new amount as the annual value of the hereditament;

• “annual value decision” , in relation to a hereditament, means a decision by a drainage board pursuant to section 29(2) of the Act of 1930 which determines the annual value of that hereditament either by apportionment of another annual value or by determination when the hereditament is not assessed as mentioned in the said section 29(2);

• “annual value property” means a hereditament which falls to be assessed on the basis of annual value or, where part only of a hereditament falls to be so assessed, that part;

• “book register” and “card register” have the meanings assigned to them respectively by regulation 5;

• “drainage board” and “drainage district” have the same meanings as in the Act of 1930; and, in relation to a drainage board:—“the district” means the drainage district for which the board is the drainage board;“the register” and “the map” mean respectively the register in respect of the drainage hereditaments in their district and the map which the board are required by section 35 of the Act to prepare and maintain;“Part” followed by a number means the part bearing that number of that register;

• “hereditament” means a hereditament for the purposes of drainage rates;

• “the initial date” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3;

• “loose-leaf register” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 5;

• “the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;

• “ordnance sheet” means a map made under the powers conferred by the Survey (Great Britain) Acts 1841 to 1870^f1 ;

• “rateable value apportionment” , in relation to a hereditament, means a determination made by a drainage board pursuant to section 31 of the Act that such valuation lists as are mentioned in that section shall have effect for the purposes there mentioned as if the proportion specified in the determination of the rateable value so specified (being the rateable value shown in the current valuation list for the rating unit of which the hereditament forms part) were shown in the list in question as the rateable value for the hereditament; and in relation to a rateable value apportionment,“the apportioned value” means the proportion so specified in that apportionment;

• “rating area” and “rating authority” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(1) of the Act of 1967;

• “rating unit” means a hereditament for the purposes of general rates;

• “the relative fraction” has the meaning assigned to it by section 23 of the Act of 1961 ;

• “split rating unit” means a hereditament in relation to which a rateable value apportionment is in force or, where such an apportionment is in force in relation to part only of a hereditament, that part; and

• “valuation officer” has the meaning assigned to it by section 115(1) of the Act of 1967.

A requirement that a part of the register shall contain certain particulars of a hereditament shall not preclude the insertion therein of other particulars of that hereditament or particulars of other hereditaments and a requirement that certain particulars shall be shown on the map shall not preclude the showing thereon of other particulars.

A requirement that a drainage board shall do any thing shall, where no period is specified for the doing thereof, be treated as a requirement that they shall do it within the shortest period which is reasonably practicable.

The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.