Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955

1New valuation lists

2Alteration of, and proceedings relating to, valuation lists

3Evidence in valuation proceedings

4Provisions as to making and levying of rates

5Ascertainment of rateable value

6Rating of Gas Boards

7Relief from rates for places of religious worship

8Provisions as to rates payable by charitable and other organisations

9Other reliefs from rates

10Contributions in aid of rates by police authorities

11Provisions as to water rates in connection with new valuation lists

12Increase of controlled rent in consequence of revaluation

13Charges for levying distress for rates

14Financial provisions

15Consequential and minor amendments, and repeal of enactments

16Interpretation, and provisions as to regulations and orders

17Short title, operation of Act, and extent

FIRST SCHEDULEAmendment of section forty-one of Local Government Act, 1948

Subsections (1) to (3) as amended by this Act

Provisions substituted for subsections (4) to (7)

SECOND SCHEDULEDeductions from gross value

THIRD SCHEDULENew Provisions for Rating Gas Boards

Calculation of rateable value on which rates are to be assessed

1The provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have...

2(1) As soon as may be after the passing of...

3(1) As soon as may be after the passing of...

4(1) For each year beginning after the thirty-first day of...

5The amount which, in accordance with the last preceding paragraph,...

Supplementary Provisions

6As respects each rating area in which a Gas Board...

7On receipt of a statement under the last preceding paragraph,...

8The duty imposed on a Gas Board by paragraph 6...

9Where the valuation officer for a rating area notifies the...

10No proposal shall be made under Part III of the...

11The valuation officer for a rating area shall from time...

12(1) The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in...

13The powers conferred on the Minister of Fuel and Power...

14In this Part of this Schedule references to the valuation...

FOURTH SCHEDULETransitional provisions relating to Gas Boards

1For the purposes of the levying of rates on Gas...

2(1) For the purposes of the levying of rates by...

3(1) Paragraphs 6 to 8 of the Third Schedule to...

4If the rateable value by reference to which rates would...

5The last preceding paragraph shall apply in relation to payments...

FIFTH SCHEDULEAdjustment of rates payable by charitable and other organisations

1(1) The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect for...

2If, by reason of any structural alteration or other event...

3If, by reason of any structural alteration or other event...

4Where, by virtue of the last preceding paragraph, subsection (2)...

5(1) Where a hereditament is one to which the principal...

SIXTH SCHEDULEContributions in aid of rates in respect of police properties in first year of new valuation list

1The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect where—

2Subject to the next following paragraph, the value entered in...

3If, by reason of one or more structural alterations or...

4Nothing in this Schedule shall affect the ascertainment of totals...

SEVENTH SCHEDULEConsequential and Minor Amendments

Amendments of Local Government Act, 1948, effective for all purposes

Amendment of Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869, effective for all purposes

Amendments of Local Government Act, 1948, effective only in relation to future valuation lists

PART IVOther amendments effective only in relation to future valuation lists

The Rating and Valuation Act, 1925

The Tithe Act, 1936

EIGHTH SCHEDULEEnactments Repealed

Repeals effective for all purposes

Repeals effective only in relation to future valuation lists

Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955

1955 Chapter 9

An Act to amend the law as respects rating and valuation for rating, and for purposes connected therewith.

[27th July, 1955]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—