Local Government and Housing Act 1989

Existing rates

67 (1) In section 118 (power to abolish or modify existing rates), at the end of subsection (1) there shall be added “and, in the case of an internal drainage board, there shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph (b) above any agreement under section 81 of the Land Drainage Act 1976 under which the board have agreed that no drainage rate will be levied on occupiers or owners of certain rateable hereditaments”.

(2) In subsections (2) and (4) of that section for the words “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted “appropriate Minister”.

(3) At the end of subsection (5) of that section there shall be added “and “the appropriate Minister” means—

(a) as respects any internal drainage board whose district is wholly within England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;

(b) as respects any internal drainage board whose district is partly in England and partly in Wales, that Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly; and

(c) as respects any other body, the Secretary of State.”