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					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/9/section/5/enacted</dc:identifier><dc:title>General Rate Act 1967</dc:title><dc:subject>Land drainage</dc:subject><dc:subject>Business rates</dc:subject><dc:subject>Legislation</dc:subject><dc:subject>District councils</dc:subject><dc:contributor/><dc:creator/><dc:rights/><dc:publisher>King's Printer of Acts of Parliament</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2022-01-27</dc:modified>
					
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<Text>Information with respect to the following matters shall be included in the demand note on which the rate is levied, that is to say—</Text>
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<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
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<Text>the situation of the hereditament in respect of which the demand note is issued and such description thereof reasonably necessary for purposes of identification as may be prescribed;</Text>
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<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
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<Text>the rateable value and, where it differs from the rateable value, also the net annual value of the hereditament;</Text>
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<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
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<Text>the amount in the pound at which the rate is charged;</Text>
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<Pnumber>d</Pnumber>
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<Text>the period in respect of which the rate is made;</Text>
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<Pnumber>e</Pnumber>
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<Text>the amounts in the pound which are being levied for the purposes respectively of the rating authority and of each authority by whom a precept has been issued to the rating authority or by whom the rating authority (where that authority are a rural district council) apprehend that a precept will be so issued;</Text>
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<Pnumber>f</Pnumber>
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<Text>the amount, if any, in the pound which is being levied as an additional item of the rate ;</Text>
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<Pnumber>g</Pnumber>
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<Text>the amounts in the pound which are being levied for such of the principal services administered respectively by the rating authority and the precepting authorities aforesaid as may be prescribed.</Text>
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<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
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<Text>This section shall not apply to the City of London.</Text>
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