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Local Government Act 1986

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1Duty to make rate on or before 1st April

(1)A rating authority shall make a rate for a financial year on or before 1st April in that year.

(2)In this section—

(a)" rating authority " means an authority having power to make a rate under section 1 of the [1967 c. 9.] General Rate Act 1967:

(b)" rate " means a general rate except that—

(i)in the case of the City of London, it includes the poor rate, and

(ii)in the case of the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple, it means any rate in the nature of a general rate levied in the Inner Temple or Middle Temple, as the case may be; and

(c)" financial year " means a period of twelve months beginning with 1st April.

(3)This section shall not be construed as invalidating a rate made by a rating authority for a financial year after 1st April in that year.

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