The Standard Community Charge (Multipliers) Order 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 129

COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Standard Community Charge (Multipliers) Order 1990

Made

29th January 1990

Laid before Parliament

5th February 1990

Coming into force

26th February 1990

The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 40(16) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (1)and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the folowing Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Standard Community Charge (Multipliers) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 26th February 1990.

Additional factors in connection with the specification of classes

2.  Subsection (11) of section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 is amended by inserting at the end of the subsection the following paragraphs —

“(g) the periods for which unoccupied properties have previously been occupied;

(h) the period for which properties would have been unoccupied if all or some periods of occupation were treated as periods during which the properties were unoccupied;

(i) in the case of properties comprised in a deceased’s estate, the period which has elapsed since a grant of probate or of letters of administration was made.”.

Chris Patten

Secretary of State for the Environment

29th January 1990

Peter Walker

Secretary of State for Wales

25th January 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order adds to the factors by reference to which charging authorities may specify classes of property for the purpose of determining their standard community charge multi)pliers. By virtue of the Order, charging authorities may have regard to the periods for which unoccupied properties have peviously been occupied, the period for which properties would have been unoccupied if all or some periods of occupation were treated as periods during which the properties were unoccupied, and the period which has elapsed since a grant of probate or of letters of administration was made.

(1)

1988 c. 41; section 40 was amended by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), Schedule 5, paragraph 18.