Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I Valuation

   1. 1. Valuation areas and authorities and appointment of assessors and staff

   2. 2. Administrative schemes

   3. 3. Scottish Valuation Advisory Council

   4. 4. Compensation to officers and transfer of property and liabilities

   5. 5. Valuation Appeal Committees

   6. 6. Ascertainment of gross annual value, net annual value and rateable value of lands and heritages

   7. 7. Provisions relating to agricultural lands and heritages and dwelling-houses occupied in connection therewith

   8. 8. Subjects to be excluded from valuation roll

   9. 9. Duties of assessors

   10. 10. Duties of Assessor of Public Undertakings (Scotland)

   11. 11. Supplementary valuation roll

   12. 12. Information to be furnished by parties to appeal or complaint

   13. 13. Times for giving notices, etc.

   14. 14. Stated case to Lands Valuation Appeal Court to set forth reasons for decision

   15. 15. Transitory provisions

3. PART II Rating

   1. 16. Transference of liability for owners' rates and consequential reduction of rents

   2. 17. Liability to charge of owner of unoccupied lands and heritages

   3. 18. Amendment of Water (Scotland) Act, 1949

   4. 19. Amendment of s. 229 of Act of 1947

   5. 20. Contributions in aid of rates by police authorities

   6. 21. Contributions in aid of rates by Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses

   7. 22. Exemption of churches, etc., from rates

   8. 23. Provisions as to rates payable by charitable and other organisations

4. PART III Valuation and Rating of Gas Boards

   1. 24. Valuation and rating of Gas Boards

   2. 25. Transitory provisions relating to valuation and rating of Gas Boards

5. PART IV Exchequer Grants

   1. 26. Exchequer Grants

   2. 27. Meaning of "adjusted rateable value"

   3. 28. Amendment of s. 11(1) of Act of 1954

   4. 29. Duration of Part IV

6. PART V Miscellaneous and Consequential Provisions

   1. 30. Calculation or apportionment of sums to be according to net annual valuation

   2. 31. Adaptation of Acts limiting expenditure by reference to gross annual or rateable valuation, etc.

   3. 32. Amendment of s. 47 (4) of Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929

   4. 33. Amendment of ss. 239 to 241 of Act of 1947

   5. 34. Amendment of s. 248 of Act of 1947

   6. 35. Amendment of s. 5 of Representation of the People Act, 1949

   7. 36. Amendment of Seventh Schedule to Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950

   8. 37. Amendment of s. 1 of House Letting and Rating (Scotland) Act, 1911

   9. 38. Amendment of s. 1 (9) of Land Drainage (Scotland) Act, 1941

   10. 39. Amendment of s. 30 (2) of Agriculture (Scotland) Act, 1948

   11. 40. Adaptation of local Acts

   12. 41. Financial provisions

   13. 42. Provisions as to orders

   14. 43. Interpretation

   15. 44. Repeals

   16. 45. Short title and extent

7. SCHEDULES

   1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      Deductions from Gross Annual Value

   2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      Valuation Timetable

   3. THIRD SCHEDULE

      Reduction of Rents

      1. 1. Where immediately before the commencement of the year first commencing...

      2. 2. Where immediately before the commencement of the relevant year any...

      3. 3. (1) Where immediately before the commencement of the relevant year...

      4. 4. Where immediately before the commencement of the relevant year any...

      5. 5. (1) Where by virtue of any condition contained in a...

      6. 6. Any reference in any Act, order or other document to...

      7. 7. (1) Any reference in any Act, order or other document...

      8. 8. (1) The reference in subsection (7) of section twelve of...

      9. 9. Where at the commencement of the relevant year the amount...

      10. 10. The enactments referred to in the last foregoing paragraph are—...

      11. 11. Where the maximum rent of any dwelling-house which immediately before...

      12. 12. Where at any time after the commencement of the relevant...

      13. 13. It shall be the duty of any landlord who by...

      14. 14. Any dispute as to the amount of the owner's share...

      15. 15. For the purposes of this Schedule— (a) the expression "...

   4. FOURTH SCHEDULE

      New Provisions for Rating Gas Boards

      1. PART I

         1. Calculation of rateable value on which rates are to be assessed

            1. 1. The provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall have...

            2. 2. (1) The Assessor of Public Undertakings (Scotland) (hereinafter referred to...

            3. 3. Each Gas Board shall estimate and certify the total number...

            4. 4. (1) For each year subsequent to the basic year each...

            5. 5. (1) Each Gas Board's rateable valuation for any year shall...

            6. 6. The amount which, in accordance with the last foregoing paragraph,...

            7. 7. (1) In respect of the year 1966-67 and of every...

            8. 8. If in respect of any year a new basic rateable...

      2. PART II

         1. Supplementary Provisions

            1. 9. It shall be the duty of each Gas Board, before...

            2. 10. On receipt of a statement under the last foregoing paragraph,...

            3. 11. (1) The provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in...

            4. 12. The powers conferred on the Minister of Fuel and Power...

   5. FIFTH SCHEDULE

      Transitory Provisions for Rating Gas Boards

      1. PART I

         1. Calculation of rateable value on which rates are to be assessed

            1. 1. The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect for the...

            2. 2. The total value of all the lands and heritages, other...

            3. 3. Each Gas Board shall estimate and certify the total number...

            4. 4. (1) For the year 1957-58 and each of the three...

            5. 5. (1) Each Gas Board's rateable valuation shall be apportioned in...

            6. 6. The amount which, in accordance with the last foregoing paragraph,...

      2. PART II

         1. Supplementary Provisions

            1. 7. It shall be the duty of each Gas Board, before...

            2. 8. On receipt of a statement under the last foregoing paragraph,...

            3. 9. The powers conferred on the Minister of Fuel and Power...

   6. SIXTH SCHEDULE

      Exchequer Grants

      1. 1. The Minister of Housing and Local Government (hereinafter referred to...

      2. 2. The Secretary of State shall ascertain and certify the total...

      3. 3. There shall then be calculated the sum which bears the...

      4. 4. The Minister shall also ascertain and certify the total amount...

      5. 5. There shall then be calculated the sum which bears the...

      6. 6. The notional rates burden for Scotland shall be deducted from...

      7. 7. There shall be calculated the sum which bears the same...

      8. 8. For the purposes of this Schedule— sums or amounts shall...

   7. SEVENTH SCHEDULE

      Repeal of Enactments

      1. PART I

         1. Enactments repealed as from the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-six

      2. PART II

         1. Enactments repealed on the passing of this Act

      3. PART III

         1. Enactments repealed on the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven

      4. PART IV

         1. Enactments repealed on the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and sixty-one