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Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 286

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum) (Rates) Order 1988

Made

18th February 1988

Coming into force

29th February 1988

Whereas in a report laid before the House of Commons on 23rd July 1987(1) the authorities listed in the Schedule to this Order were designated by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 2 of the Rates Act 1984(2) in relation to the financial year beginning on 1st April 1988;

And whereas the Secretary of State has served notice on each of those authorities pursuant to section 4(1) of that Act stating the maximum which he proposes to prescribe under section 1 of that Act for the rate made by them for that year;

And whereas none of those authorities has accepted the maximum proposed by the Secretary of State within the period specified in the notice or agreed with him a different maximum;

And whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of the House of Commons;

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1 and 4(4) of the Rates Act 1984 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Rate Limitation (Prescribed Maximum) (Rates) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 29th February 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Rates Act 1984; and

“the maximum rate” means a maximum amount in the pound for the rate exclusive of any part of the rate mentioned in section 1(4) of the Act.

Prescription of maximum rates

3.  There is hereby prescribed under section 1 of the Act, for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1988, as the maximum rate for an authority listed in the Schedule to this Order, the amount there set against the name of the authority.

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

18th February 1988

Article 3

SCHEDULEMAXIMUM RATES

City of Liverpool Metropolitan District Council268.17p
City of Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan District Council270.01p
Basildon District Council49.68p
Borough of Thamesdown District Council51.10p
The Council of the London Borough of Camden117.00p
The Council of the London Borough of Lambeth92.32p
The Council of the London Borough of Lewisham131.76p
The Council of the London Borough of Southwark101.00p
The Council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets123.21p
The Council of the London Borough of Ealing167.00p
The Council of the London Borough of Haringey214.69p
The Council of the London Borough of Waltham Forest199.14p

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes maximum rates for the authorities listed in the Schedule to the Order for the financial year beginning on 1st April 1988. In each case the maximum is shown against the name of the authority.

(1)

See the Rate Limitation Report 1987 HC 58.

(2)

1984 c. 33. Section 2(2)(a) was amended, as regards England, by the Rate Limitation (Designation of Authorities) (Exemption) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/785).