1991 No. 2906
The Non-Domestic Rating (Ports of London and Tilbury) Regulations 1991
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 29(1) and (3) of the Ports Act 19911 and sections 64(3), 143(1) and 146(6) of, and paragraph 11 to Schedule 7A to, the Local Government Finance Act 19882 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Ports of London and Tilbury) Regualtions 1991 and shall come into force on 13th January 1992.
Interpretation2
In these Regulations “the 1991 Act” means the Ports Act 1991; and expressions used in these Regulations and in Part II of the 1991 Act shall have the same meaning in these regulations as in that Part.
Modifications of the Docks and Harbours (Rateable Values) Order 19893
In its application for determining the rateable value at any time falling within the transitional period3 of any hereditament to which section 29(2) of the 1991 Act applies, the Docks and Harbours (Rateable Values) Order 19894 shall have effect with the following modifications—
a
article 2 (interpretation) shall apply as if after the definition of “subsiduary” there were added the following definitions—
“the Port Authority” has the meaning given by section 21(1) of the Ports Act 1991;
“the transfer date” means the date on which the transfer under section 22(8) of that Act takes effect;
b
article 4(1) shall apply as if, for sub-paragraph (b) there were substituted the following—
b
for each day in the period beginning on 1st April 1991 and ending immediately before the transfer date, an amount equal to 9 per cent. of the adjusted income of the undertaking of the Port Authority for the accounting period of twelve months ending on 31st December 1990;
c
for each day in the period beginning on the transfer date and ending immediately before 1st April 1992, an amount equal to 9 per cent. of that part of the adjusted income of the undertaking of the Port Authority for the accounting period of twelve months ending on 31st December 1990 which, if the undertakings of the Authority and Port of Tilbury London Limited (“the company”) as constituted immediately after the transfer had existed throughout those months, would have been the adjusted income of the undertakings of the Authority and the company respectively in relation to those months; and
d
for each of the years beginning on 1st April 1992 and 1st April 1993, an amount equal to 9 per cent. of the amount ascertained in accordance with sub-paragraph (c) above as that which, if the undrtakings of the Authority and the company as constituted immediately after the transfer had existed throughout the relevant preceding calendar year, would have been the adjusted income of the undertakings of the Authority and the company respectively in relation to each of those calendar years.
Non-domestic rating: transitional relief4
Where part of the hereditament owned or occupied by the Port Authority is transferred to and vests in Port of Tilbury London Limited (“the company”) in accordance with a scheme under section 22 of the 1991 Act, in the application of Schedule 7A to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 after the transfer any period during which the Authority owned or occupied that part of the hereditament before the transfer shall, for the purposes of paragraph 2(5) to (9) of that Schedule, be treated as a period during which the company owned or occupied it (as the case may be).
Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellanous Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 19895
Regulation 5 (docks and harbour undertakings) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 19895 is amended by the insertion—
a
at the beginning of paragraph (4) of the words
Subject to paragraph (4A),
b
after paragraph (4) of the following paragraph—
4A
On and after the date on which a scheme under section 22 of the Ports Act 1991 takes effect, paragraph (4) shall apply in relation to the heriditaments consisting of or including the undertaking of the Port of London Authority as if for the words after “relevant period” there were substituted the words “in the area of the Thurrock District Council.”.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)