The Local Government (Rating Matters) Order 1973

Rating of other bodies and undertakings

4.—(1) In the application of section 33 of and Schedule 6 to the General Rate Act 1967 and of the Natural Gas Terminals (Rating) Order 1970(1) to the British Gas Corporation, of section 34 of and Schedule 7 to the said Act to any Electricity Board and of the Post Office (Rateable Values) Order 1972(2) to the Post Office in relation to any rate period beginning on or after 1st April 1974 the specified matters shall be deemed to have been effected at all material times.

(2) In the Natural Gas Terminals (Rating) Order 1970 as amended(3), for the entries in column (1) of the Schedule there shall be substituted—

“1.   Premises in the district of Castle Point.

2.   Premises in the parishes of Bacton and Paston in the district of Pastonacres.

3.   Premises in the parish of Easington in the district of Holderness.

4.   Premises in the parish of Theddlethorpe St. Helen in the district of East Lindsey”.

(3) In the Post Office (Rateable Values) Order 1972:—

(a) in article 6(6) (which ensures that parishes in the rural districts of Beverley and Holderness shall be deemed for certain purposes to constitute rating areas)—

for “parishes in the rural district of Beverley named” there shall be substituted “areas in the district of Beverley described”;

the word “rural”, wherever subsequently occurring, shall be omitted;

for the word “parishes”, where last occurring, there shall be substituted “areas”; and

(b) for the Schedule there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this order.

(4) If any adjustment of the cumulo-value of a water undertaking falls to be made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the General Rate Act 1967 for the rate periods beginning on 1st April 1974 and subsequent rate periods the specified matters shall for the purposes of paragraph 4 of the said Schedule be deemed to have been effected at all material times.

(1)

(1970 II, p. 3146).

(2)

(1972 III, p. 5184).

(3)

The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1973/1459.