The Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/2792
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Rural Settlements) (England) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 19th December 1997.

(2) In this Order “the 1988 Act ” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Section 2 Designation of rural areas

(1) There are designated as rural areas for the purposes of section 42A (rural settlement lists) of the 1988 Act—

(a) each parish, and each unparished area, mentioned or described in either of the Schedules to each of the housing orders, and

(b) each area mentioned or described in article 2(c) of each of those orders specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1,

including any part of such an area which is, by virtue of its omission from the area delineated on any map referred to in such an order, not designated by such an order as a rural area;

(c) the parishes named in the second column of Part 1 of Schedule 2 in the counties named in the first column, and

(d) the areas described in Part 2 of that Schedule.

(2) In this article—

‘the housing orders’ means the orders specified in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 1, being orders designating rural areas for the purposes of section 17 (the right to acquire) of the Housing Act 1996 and section 1AA(3)(a) (additional right to enfranchise) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 , and

references to grid lines are to lines on the Ordnance Survey National Grid.

Section 3 Rateable value limits

(1) £5,000 is the amount prescribed as the maximum amount of rateable value for the purposes of section 43(6B)(b) (mandatory relief for general stores and post offices) of the 1988 Act.

(2) £10,000 is the amount prescribed as the maximum amount of rateable value for the purposes of section 47(3A)(b) (discretionary relief in rural areas) of the 1988 Act.

(3) This article applies in relation to hereditaments shown in local non-domestic rating lists for billing authorities in England.