The Docks and Harbours (Rateable Values) (Wales) Order 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Order.)

The National Assembly for Wales may provide by order, under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 6 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988, that hereditaments, in Wales, of any class are not to be valued for non-domestic rating on the basis set out in paragraphs 2 to 2C of that Schedule (that is, by reference to the rent a hypothetical tenant would pay for the hereditament on an annual basis), but on the basis of rules set out in the order.

By article 3 of this Order the rateable value of hereditaments which consist of dock or harbour undertakings carried on under the authority of any enactment is to be determined on the basis of rules set out in article 4, except in the case of certain small undertakings, essentially those with a relevant income of less than £1,000,000 in 1998, and docks and harbours wholly or mainly used by the person operating them, or by associated persons, for their own purposes.

Article 4 provides that the rateable value of such hereditaments, for a chargeable financial year, shall be an amount equal to 20 per cent of the balance between an amount for the income and an amount for the expenditure of the undertaking (where both amounts are calculated in accordance with the Order) subject to a threshold.

Article 5 revokes, with savings, the provisions of the Docks and Harbours (Rateable Values) Order 1989 (as amended), in so far as it applied in respect of the local non-domestic rating lists for Wales compiled on 1st April 1990 and 1st April 1995.