Local Government Act 1966

38 Amendments preparatory to consolidation.

(1) With a view to facilitating the consolidation of the enactments relating to rating and valuation in England and Wales, subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall have effect as from such day as the Minister may by order appoint.

(2) The following provisions (by virtue of which there subsists a residual liability to rating by reference to tithes) namely—

(a) in section 1 of the [1601 c. 2.] Poor Relief Act 1601, the words " of every inhabitant parson vicar and other and " and the words " tithes impropriate or propriations of tithes " ;

(b) section 69 of the [1836 c. 71.] Tithe Act 1836 ;

(c) section 1 of the [1840 c. 89.] Poor Rate Exemption Act 1840 ;

(d) section 1 of the [1851 c. 50.] Tithe Rating Act 1851 ;

(e) in Schedule 1 to the [1922 c. 50.] Expiring Laws Act 1922, the entry numbered (1),

and also the provisions of the [1925 c. 90.] Rating and Valuation Act 1925 specified in Schedule 9 to the [1936 c. 43.] Tithe Act 1936 (which relate to the treatment for the purposes of rating of tithe rentcharge not extinguished by the said Act of 1936) so far as excepted from repeal by the said Act of 1936 by section 48(3) thereof and, in section 7 of the [1874 c. 54.] Rating Act 1874, the words "and tithe rentcharge ", shall cease to have effect; and the valuation officer shall, without any proposal, cause the valuation list to be altered by the deletion therefrom of any property which he is satisfied has, by virtue of this subsection, ceased to be rateable.

(3) The enactments aforesaid shall have effect subject to the provisions of Schedule 4 to this Act, being provisions designed to avoid or remove minor doubts, anomalies and inconsistencies, to remove spent, obsolete or otherwise unnecessary provisions, to bring obsolete provisions into conformity with modern practice or to facilitate improvement in the form or manner in which the law is stated.