General Rate Act 1967

PART II SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

10 It shall be the duty of each Electricity Board, before 16th October preceding the beginning of any rate period in respect of which that Board will fall to be treated as occupying, in a rating area, a hereditament of a rateable value calculated in accordance with Part I of this Schedule, to transmit to the Commissioners a statement setting out particulars of all matters estimated, calculated and certified (otherwise than by the Minister or the Commissioners) for the purpose of computing the rateable value of that hereditament.

11 Before 15th November preceding the beginning of the rate period the Commissioners shall transmit particulars to each Electricity Board of the aggregate net annual value of the area of the Board and of each rating area or part of a rating area within the area of the Board.

12 Before the said 15th November the Commissioners shall notify to each rating authority the particulars necessary to enable the authority to calculate the rateable value of the hereditament which any Electricity Board are to be treated as occupying in the area of the authority.

13 The Commissioners shall calculate the rateable value of the hereditament which any Electricity Board are to be treated as occupying during the rate period in question, and shall notify the amount of that rateable value to the rating authority before the end of the month of December preceding the beginning of the rate period.

14 Where the Commissioners notify the amount of a rateable value to the rating authority in respect of an Electricity Board in accordance with paragraph 13 of this Schedule—

(a) the rating authority, in making and levying any rate for a rate period to which the notification relates, shall include the Board as the occupier of a hereditament of that rateable value; and

(b) the valuation officer, at or as soon as may be after the begirming of the year consisting of or comprising any such rate period, shall cause such alterations (if any) to be made in the valuation list as may be requisite for showing the Board in the list as the occupier of a hereditament of that rateable value; and if any such alteration is made after the beginning of the year, it shall be treated as having been made at the beginning of the year:

Provided that if the year referred to in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph is a year beginning with the date on which a new valuation list comes into force, that sub-paragraph shall not apply, but the valuation officer shall include the Board in the list as the occupier of a hereditament of the said rateable value.

15 For the purposes of section 34(2)(c) of this Act, paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to this Act shall have effect as if in that paragraph—

(a) for any reference to section 32(2)(b) of this Act there were substituted a reference to the said section 34(2)(c); and

(b) for any reference to the Minister of Transport there were substituted a reference to the Minister of Power.

16 Before making any order under paragraph 2(2) or the proviso to paragraph 3(1) of this Schedule, the Minister shall consult with the Electricity Council, with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned, and with any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable ; and any such order—

(a) may contain such incidental, supplemental and consequential provisions, including provisions altering any enactment or instrument, as the Minister considers expedient for the purposes of the order; and

(b) shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.