Gas Act 1972

PART II Transitional Provisions

3 (1) The Corporation shall not by virtue of section 33(3) of the [1967 c. 9.] General Rate Act 1967 as set out in paragraph 1 of this Schedule be treated as occupying a hereditament in any rating area for any rate period beginning before 1st April 1974 ; but if during any rate period beginning on or after the appointed day and ending before the said 1st April an Area Board would if this Act had not been passed have been treated as occupying a hereditament in any area by virtue of section 33(3) of the said Act of 1967 as in force immediately before the appointed day, the Corporation shall be treated for the purpose of the making and levying of a rate for that area for that period as occupying the like hereditament during that period.

(2) If the appointed day falls before 1st April 1973, the Secretary of State may nevertheless make at any time before the said 1st April an order under paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 6 to the said Act of 1967 as in force immediately before the appointed day which shall have effect for the purpose of calculating in accordance with Part I of that Schedule as so in force the rateable values of the hereditaments which the Corporation are to be treated as occupying by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above, paragraphs 7 to 10 of the said Schedule 6 shall have effect until the appointed day as if this Act had not been passed, and, as then in force, shall thereafter continue to have effect with the necessary modifications.

4 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, in relation to any rate period or year beginning on or after 1st April 1974, section 33(3) of and Schedule 6 to the [1967 c. 9.] General Rate Act 1967 as set out in Part I of this Schedule shall have effect as if references to gas supplied, manufactured, produced or purchased by the Corporation included references to gas supplied, manufactured, produced or, as the case may be, purchased by the Corporation as the Gas Council and by Area Boards.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) above shall not apply to paragraph 4(a) of the said Schedule 6, but, in relation to any such rate period or year as is mentioned in the said sub-paragraph (1), the reference in the said paragraph 4(a) to gas purchased by the Corporation in order to supply consumers in England or Wales shall include a reference to gas purchased by the Corporation as the Gas Council in order to supply Area Boards or consumers in England or Wales, and to gas purchased by Area Boards otherwise than from the Corporation as such.

(3) If, by virtue of any order under paragraph 2(2) of the said Schedule 6 as in force immediately before the appointed day (including an order made by virtue of paragraph 3(2) above), the basic totals of rateable values of the Area Boards in England and Wales as on 1st April 1973 amount in the aggregate to a sum other than £9,640,560, that sum shall be substituted for the reference to £9,640,560 in paragraph 2(1) of that Schedule as set out in paragraph 2 above.

5 (1) Where any premises designated by an order in force immediately before the appointed day under subsection (5) of section 33 of the General Rate Act 1967 are thereafter occupied and used by the Corporation as mentioned in that subsection in relation to gas purchased either by the Corporation (whether as such or as the Gas Council) or by an Area Board, the order and any related direction so in force shall, with the necessary modifications, have effect as from that day as if authorised by, and made or given under, the new section 33(5) set out in paragraph 1 of this Schedule; but the Secretary of State shall vary the direction as from that day so that it provides as mentioned in the said section 33(5) as so set out, subject to the qualification that, so far as it requires a reduction in the basic total of rateable values of any Area Board, that requirement shall continue to have effect for the purpose of calculating the rateable values of the hereditaments which the Corporation are to be treated as occupying by virtue of paragraph 3(1) of this Schedule.

(2) Any direction given by virtue of an order made under the said section 33(5) on or after the appointed day may make such provision as is mentioned in the said section 33(5) as in force immediately before that day for the purpose specified in sub-paragraph (1) above.