Rating and Valuation Act 1925

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(1) Subject as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, nothing therein contained shall affect—

(a) the principles on which hereditaments are to be valued or any privilege or any provision for the making of a valuation on any exceptional principle; or

(b) any exemption from or privilege in respect of rating conferred by any local Act or order on the occupiers of hereditaments in any particular part of a rating area or on the occupiers of any particular hereditaments; or

(c) any provision in any local Act under which the owner of a hereditament is liable to pay or bear a portion of any rate in relief of the occupier without being entitled to any commission, reduction, or allowance in respect of that liability; or

(d) any statutory provision authorising the appointment of a person to raise a rate on default being made by a local authority in performing any duty or making any payment; or

(e) any exemption from rating under section thirty three of the [5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 50.] Highway Act, 1835 :

Provided that, for the purpose of any provision in any local Act conferring any exemption or privilege in respect of any rates which at the commencement of that Act were or might thereafter become leviable by an authority being an authority empowered to levy a general rate under this Act, such part of the general rate levied by the authority as represents rates which immediately before the appointed day were not levied by the authority shall not be deemed to be a rate levied by that authority.

(2) For the purpose of securing the continued operation, notwithstanding the passing of this Act, of any such privilege or exemption as aforesaid—

(a) the rating authority of every area in which immediately before the passing of this Act any such privilege or exemption was in force shall, before the appointed day, submit to the Minister a scheme making provision, whether by deductions to be made from the net annual value or otherwise, for the purpose aforesaid;

(b) if no such scheme is submitted by the rating authority before the appointed day, the Minister may himself make a scheme for the purpose aforesaid ;

(c) the provisions of paragraphs 2, 4 and 7 of Part III. of the Second Schedule to this Act shall apply for the purpose of schemes made under this subsection as if such schemes were special schemes within the meaning of the said Part III;

(d) subject to the foregoing provisions, a scheme duly approved or made by the Minister shall have effect as if enacted in this Act:

Provided that the rating authority and all persons interested in the hereditament may agree that the privilege or exemption shall be surrendered and extinguished in consideration of such payments as may be agreed between them.

(3) Where any hereditament is occupied by or on behalf of the Crown for public purposes—

(a) no gross value shall be determined or entered in the valuation list in respect of the hereditament ; and

(b) if any contribution is made by the Crown in aid of rates in respect of that hereditament, there shall be entered in the valuation list as representing the rateable value thereof the value upon which that contribution is computed, and the value so entered, or the amount of the contribution, as the case may be, shall be taken into account for the purpose of ascertaining totals or the proceeds of any rate, but the entry shall not affect any question as to contributions to be made by the Crown in respect of rates.

(4) The Minister may make orders for the purpose of giving to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or any other body which under any Act is entitled to special representation on any assessment committee, similar rights of representation on assessment committees constituted under this Act, and, so far as necessary for that purpose, may modify any provisions of this Act relating to the constitution of assessment committees.

(5) Nothing in this Act shall affect the basis on which payments are made to the London County Council by any local or other authority outside London in respect of London main drainage charges, and accordingly in any Act or document relating to any such payments references to annual value, rateable value, the county rate basis or standard, or any other value or basis shall be construed as references to the corresponding value as determined under this Act, or, if there is no such corresponding value, to the equivalent value, such equivalent value to be determined, in case of difference, by the Minister.

(6) Nothing in this Act shall affect the basis on which, or the manner in which, sums required for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police are raised.