Local Government Act 1948

55Rating of owners instead of occupiers.

(1)Subsection (1) of section eleven of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (which imposes a limit on the rateable value of hereditaments outside London in respect of which owners may be rated instead of occupiers of thirteen pounds or, where at the passing of that Act a higher limit was in certain circumstances in force, that higher limit) for the words " thirteen pounds " there shall be substituted the words " eighteen pounds " and for the words " that higher limit " there shall be substituted the words " twenty-five pounds ".

(2)The [32 & 33 Vict. c. 41.] Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869, shall have effect as if in section three of that Act (which imposes a limit of twenty pounds in the corresponding provisions relating to London) for the words " twenty pounds " there were substituted the words " twenty-five pounds ".