Finance Act 1975

Multiplied rental value

9 (1) For the purposes of this Schedule the multiplied rental value of any agricultural property in Great Britain is twenty times its rental value as defined below or such other multiple of that rental value as the Treasury may from time to time by order made by statutory instrument prescribe.

(2) The rental value of any agricultural property in Great Britain is the annual rent at which the property might reasonably be expected to be let with vacant possession as an agricultural holding if the landlord undertook to bear the cost of insurance and of repairs to buildings and fixed equipment so far as such cost is not normally borne by a tenant.

(3) The multiplied rental value of agricultural property in Northern Ireland is seven-tenths or such fraction of its agricultural value as the Treasury may from time to time by order made by statutory instrument prescribe.

(4) The fraction to be prescribed by an order under sub-paragraph (3) above shall be such as appears to the Treasury to represent the average of reductions made under paragraph 2 above in the case of agricultural property in Great Britain in the last period of twelve months preceding the making of the order which is a period for which information adequate for ascertaining that average is available, but taking into account any order under sub-paragraph (1) above.

(5) If the fraction first prescribed by an order under sub-paragraph (3) above is less than seven-tenths that sub-paragraph shall be deemed always to have had effect as if that fraction had been specified therein instead of seven-tenths; and so much of any tax paid as would not then have been chargeable shall be repaid.

(6) No order shall be made under this paragraph unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.