1993 No. 542

RATING AND VALUATION

The Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) Order 1993

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 66(9) of the Local Government Finance Act 19881, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Definition of domestic property2

Section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 19882 shall be amended—

a

in subsection (1), by the substitution for the words “Subject to subsections (2) and (2B) below” of the words “Subject to subsections (2), (2B) and (2E) below”; and

b

after subsection (2D), by the insertion of the following subsection—

2E

Property is not domestic property if it is timeshare accommodation within the meaning of the Timeshare Act 1992.

Michael HowardSecretary of State for the Environment
David HuntSecretary of State for Wales

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends, with effect from 1st April 1993, section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which defines domestic property for the purposes of Part III (non-domestic rating) of that Act.

The definition of domestic property is amended to exclude timeshare accommodation.