Amendments relating to the jurisdiction of county courts
4.—(1) In the following enactments, and in any other enactment relating to the jurisdiction of county courts, references to net annual value for rating or rateable value shall be construed as references to a sum equivalent to the last such value of the property concerned immediately before 1st April 1990:
(a)the Tithe Act 1891(1);
(b)sections 3(7), 30(2), 49(4), 66(4), 146 and 147(5) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Law of Property Act 1925(2);
(c)section 113 of the Settled Land Act 1925(3);
(d)sections 43A, 53 and 63 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954(4);
(e)section 1 of the Land Charges Act 1972(5);
(f)section 1 of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983(6);
(g)sections 21, 22 and 139 of, and Schedule 1 to, the County Courts Act 1984(7); and
(h)paragraph 6(5) of Schedule 18 to the Housing Act 1985(8).
(2) In enactments to which paragraph (1) applies, references to the net annual value for rating or rateable value of a property which did not have such a value immediately before 1st April 1990 shall be construed as references to–
(a)the rateable value immediately before that date of a hereditament of which the property concerned forms or formed part; or
(b)where there is no such hereditament, or where it had no such value, the value by the year of the property concerned at the time when the relevant proceedings are commenced.