Statutory Instruments
1993 No. 542
RATING AND VALUATION
The Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) Order 1993
Made 8th March 1993
Laid before Parliament 11th March 1993
Coming into force 1st April 1993

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 66(9) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1988 c. 41.

Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Definition of Domestic Property) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Definition of domestic property
2. Section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 shall be amended—
In Section 66, subsection (1) was amended, subsection (2) substituted, and subsections (2A) to (2D) and (8A) inserted, by S.I. 1990/162. Subsection (2A) was substituted, and subsection (2D) amended, by S.I. 1991/474. Subsection (3) was amended, and subsections (6) and (8) repealed, by section 1 of the Caravans (Standard Community Charge and Rating) Act 1991 (c. 2). Words in subsections (2D), (3) and (4) were repealed by paragraph 70 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14).
(a) in subsection (1), by the substitution for the words “Subject to subsections (2) and (2B) below” of the words “Subject to subsections (2), (2B) and (2E) below”; and
(b) after subsection (2D), by the insertion of the following subsection—

“(2E) Property is not domestic property if it is timeshare accommodation within the meaning of the Timeshare Act 1992.”

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1992 c. 35.
Michael Howard
Secretary of State for the Environment
5th March 1993
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
8th March 1993

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends, with effect from 1st April 1993, section 66 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 which defines domestic property for the purposes of Part III (non-domestic rating) of that Act.
The definition of domestic property is amended to exclude timeshare accommodation.