HC Deb 14 February 1957 vol 564 c1457

Resolution reported, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session relating to rating and valuation, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to the provisions of the said Act in the sums payable out of such moneys for the year 1957–58 or subsequent years under Part I of the Local Government Act, 1948, or the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1954, as amended by the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act, 1956, being provisions—

  1. (a) reducing the rateable value of any hereditament;
  2. (b) increasing the rateable value of any hereditament which a Gas Board is treated as occupying under section six of the Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955; or
  3. (c) reducing for the purposes of Part I of the Local Government Act, 1948, the rateable value for an area by reference to the reduction in the amount of rates chargeable in respect of hereditaments to which section eight of the said Act of 1955 applies.

Resolution agreed to.