The Non-Domestic Rating (Police Authorities) Order 1995

Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 1679

RATING AND VALUATION

The Non-Domestic Rating (Police Authorities) Order 1995

Made

3rd July 1995

Laid before Parliament

6th July 1995

Coming into force

7th July 1995

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 64(7A), (7B) and (7C)(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Police Authorities) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 7th July 1995.

Disapplication of Crown exemption

2.—(1) Subsection (6) of section 64 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 shall apply to any hereditament falling within the class prescribed in paragraph (2) of this article.

(2) The class of hereditaments prescribed in this paragraph consists of hereditaments provided and maintained by a police authority established under section 3 of the Police Act 1964(2) for purposes connected with the administration of justice, police purposes or other Crown purposes.

Department of the Environment

John Selwyn Gummer

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

3rd July 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

Section 64(6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 displaces certain rules as to Crown exemption which would otherwise apply in relation to hereditaments provided and maintained for purposes connected with the administration of justice, police purposes or other Crown purposes by one of the bodies mentioned in section 64(7) of that Act. As a result, such hereditaments must be shown in a local or central non-domestic rating list, and non-domestic rates may be payable in respect of them.

This Order extends the application of section 64(6) to hereditaments provided and maintained by a police authority established under the Police Act 1964 (as amended by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994) for purposes connected with the administration of justice, police purposes or other Crown purposes.

(1)

1988 c. 41; subsections (7A), (7B) and (7C) were inserted by Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

(2)

1964 c. 48; section 3 was substituted by section 2 of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).