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General Rate Act 1967

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PART II

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7As respects each rating area in which a Gas Board will fall to be treated as occupying, during any rate period, a hereditament of a rateable value calculated in accordance with Part I of this Schedule, it shall be the duty of the Board, before the end of the month of October preceding the beginning of that period, to transmit to the rating authority and to the valuation officer a statement setting out particulars of all the matters estimated, calculated and certified for the purpose of computing the rateable value of that hereditament.

8On receipt of a statement under paragraph 7 of this Schedule, the valuation officer shall calculate the rateable value of the hereditament which the Gas Board are to be treated as occupying during the rate period in question, and shall notify the amount of that rateable value to the rating authority before the end of the month of December preceding the beginning of that rate period.

9The duty imposed on a Gas Board by paragraph 7 of this Schedule shall be enforceable by mandamus at the instance of the rating authority or of the valuation officer; and the duty imposed on the valuation officer by paragraph 8 of this Schedule shall be enforceable by mandamus at the instance of the rating authority.

10Where the valuation officer notifies the amount of a rateable value to the rating authority in respect of a Gas Board in accordance with paragraph 8 of this Schedule—

(a)the rating authority, in making and levying any rate for a rate period to which the notification relates, shall include the Gas Board as the occupier of a hereditament of that rateable value ; and

(b)the valuation officer, at or as soon as may be after the beginning of the year consisting of or comprising any such rate period, shall cause such alterations (if any) to be made in the valuation list as may be requisite for showing the Gas Board in the list as the occupier of a hereditament of that rateable value ; and if any such alteration is made after the beginning of the year, it shall be treated as having been made at the beginning of the year:

Provided that, if the year referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph is a year beginning with the date on which a new valuation list comes into force, that sub-paragraph shall not apply, but the valuation officer shall include the Gas Board in the list as the occupier of a hereditament of the said rateable value.

11(1)The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect, in the case of a Gas Board, where gas is manufactured by the Board, or in the Board's area by the Gas Council, in a gasworks which is situated partly in one rating area and partly in one or more other rating areas.

(2)For the purposes of section 33 of this Act, the Gas Board or Gas Council shall be treated as manufacturing gas in each of the rating areas in which a part of the gasworks is situated, notwithstanding that no gas is actually manufactured in one or more of those areas.

(3)For the purposes of paragraph 5 of this Schedule, the gas manufactured in the gasworks in any year shall be treated as apportioned between all the rating areas in which parts of the gasworks are situated, in such proportions as may be agreed between the rating authorities of those areas and the Gas Board:

Provided that if any apportionment required by this sub-paragraph for the purpose of apportioning the Board's adjusted total of rateable values for any year has not been agreed between the rating authorities and the Board before the end of the month of September preceding the beginning of that year, the apportionment required by this sub-paragraph shall be made by the Minister and notified by him to the rating authorities and to the Board as soon as may be after the end of that month.

(4)In this paragraph—

(a)the expression " gasworks " means any group of premises within one curtilage which is occupied by a Gas Board or the Gas Council for the purposes of the manufacture of gas ; and a group of premises shall not be treated as being otherwise than within one curtilage by reason only that it is traversed by a public highway ;

(b)any reference to the manufacture of gas shall be construed as including a reference to the production of gas by such an application of such a process as is mentioned in section 33(3)(b) of this Act.

12The powers conferred on the Minister of Power by sections 6(6) and 24(3) of the [1948 c. 67.] Gas Act 1948 (which authorise that Minister. in an order varying the area of a Gas Board, or transferring property between Gas Boards, to provide for certain matters arising out of the variation or transfer) shall include power, by an order made thereunder, to modify in the case of any Gas Board affected by the order—

(a)the application of Part I of this Schedule ; and

(b)the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Schedule.

13For the purposes of section 33(2)(f) of this Act, paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect as if in that paragraph—

(a)for any reference to section 32(2)(b) of this Act there were substituted a reference to the said section 33(2)(f) ; and

(b)for any reference to the Minister of Transport there were substituted a reference to the Minister of Power.

14Before making any order under section 33(5) or (6) of this Act or under paragraph 5(4) of this Schedule, the Minister shall consult with the Gas Council, with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and with any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable; and any such order—

(a)may contain such incidental, supplemental and consequential provisions, including any provisions altering any enactment or instrument, as the Minister considers expedient for the purposes of the order ; and

(b)shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

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