This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I 2004/3387 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND
Made
30th March 2005
Coming into force
31st March 2005
The First Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 57A, 140(4) and 143(1) and (2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), hereby makes the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, each House of Parliament:
1. These Regulations, which apply to England only, may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.
2. The Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (England) Regulations 2004(2) are amended in accordance with the following provisions.
3. In regulation 9(3)(b)(i) and (ii), for “1st April 2000” substitute “1st April 2005”.
4. In Schedule 2, in paragraphs 2(1), 3(1), 4(1) and 5(1), for the words “43(4) to (6A), 44 and 45(4) to (6)” substitute “43(4) to (6A), 44, 45(4) to (6) and 54(4) to (7)”.
Signed by authority of the First Secretary of State
Nick Raynsford
Minister of State
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
30th March 2005
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations correct errors in the Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (England) Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/3387) by way of—
(a)the correction of references in regulation 9(3) to 1st April 2000, which should have been references to 1st April 2005; and
(b)the insertion, in Schedule 2, of references to section 54(4) to (7) (liability for rates for hereditaments shown on the central rating list).
In view of the nature of these amendments no further Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared.
1988 c. 41: section 57A was inserted by section 65 of the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26) and section 143(4) was amended by paragraph 24(3) of Schedule 7 to the same Act.