Local Government Act 1929

20 Subsection (2) of section seventeen of the Tithe Act, 1925, shall, for the purposes of any application for the redemption of any lay tithe rentcharge on any land made by the owner of the land on or after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, have effect as if—

(a) for the words " then if the land charged with the tithe rentcharge, except so far as it consists of buildings in the same occupation, is agricultural land for the purposes of the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896," there were substituted the words " then, if and so far as the land charged with the tithe rentcharge is agricultural land or agricultural buildings within the meaning of Part V. of the Local Government Act, 1929, "; and

(b) for the words " any rate to which the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, applies," there were substituted the words " any general rate (including any additional item thereof) "; and

(c) there were inserted at the end of the subsection the following words:—

“In relation to any period before the date on which the first general rate under the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, became leviable in the rating area in which the land is situate, the reference in this subsection to a general rate shall be construed as a reference to any rate to which the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, applied during the said period in that area.”