Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1955

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

Section of Act	Amendment
Section 33	The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (3) :— “(3) In this Part of this Act the expression ' the valuation officer', in relation to a valuation list, means any officer of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue who is for the time being appointed by the Commissioners to be the valuation officer or one of the valuation officers, or to be the deputy valuation officer or one of the deputy valuation officers, in relation to that list.”
Section 34	In subsection (1), after the words " rating area ", where those words first occur, there shall be inserted the words " (whether in London or elsewhere) ".
Section 39	In subsection (2), after the word " Act ", there shall be inserted the words " or of the Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955 ".
Section 44	At the end of subsection (3), the following proviso shall be added:— “Provided that such a court may, with the consent of all persons appearing before the court on the hearing of the appeal, consist of any two of the persons mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection, so however that, if the members of a court so constituted are unable to agree on a decision, the appeal shall be re-heard by another local valuation court.”
Section 46	In subsection (1), for the words " not more than two of the other members as deputy chairmen thereof," there shall be substituted the words " such number of the members as the scheme may provide as deputy chairmen thereof ".
Section 48	In subsection (4), for the words from " incorporate in the list " to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " cause the list to be altered accordingly ".
Section 55	In subsection (1), after the words " eighteen pounds " there shall be inserted the words " for the words ' a higher limit of value' there shall be substituted the words ' a limit of value higher than thirteen pounds'. "
Section 57	In subsection (1), for the words " or revising a draft" there shall be substituted the words " a new ".
Section 58	In subsections (1) and (2), for the word " premises " there shall be substituted the words " hereditament or premises ".
Section 67	In subsection (2), after the words " valuation officer ", there shall be inserted the words " or deputy valuation officer ".
Section 144	In subsection (2), in paragraph (b) of the proviso, for the words " the first year in which the first new valuation list made under Part III of this Act is in force, and previous years," there shall be substituted the words " any year before that in which the first new valuation list made under Part III of this Act is in force " ; and at the end of the proviso the following paragraph shall be added:— “(c) where an alteration in a valuation list, with respect to a hereditament shown in the list when that list came into force, is made within the year at the beginning of which the list came into force, and (in accordance with section forty-two of this Act) the alteration has effect as from the beginning of that year, or as from the beginning of a period falling within that year, the valuation list shall be deemed, for the purposes of this subsection, to have had effect as modified by that alteration as from the time when the list came into force.”