HC Deb 20 October 1966 vol 734 cc547-9
Mr. MacColl

I beg to move Amendment No. 63, in page 33, line 28, to leave out sub-paragraph (3) and to insert: (3) Where a new valuation list is prepared for any area, the valuation officer shall include in the list as transmitted to the rating authority

  1. (a) any dwelling-house included in the current list for that area in pursuance of a proposal under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) of this paragraph; and
  2. (b) any building (with or without other land) in respect of which a proposal for its inclusion in the current list as a dwelling-house has been made by him under the said sub-paragraph (1) and has not been settled,
and, if any such proposal is made by him after the new list has been so transmitted, shall cause that list to be altered so as to include the building (with or without other land) as a dwelling-house in the new list. This is purely a drafting Amendment, and we think that in this form the subparagraph is easier to understand than it was. I would not pretend that it is shriekingly easy to understand in any form, but we feel that on the whole it is easier to understand in this form.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: In page 33, line 39, leave out sub-paragraph (4).—[Mr. MacColL]

Mr. MacColl

I beg to move Amendment No. 65, in page 34, line 26, at the end to insert: 'and the notice shall be deemed to be withdrawn'. This is not much more than a drafting Amendment. The paragraph which it amends enables the owner and the rating authority to agree upon a completion date after notice has been served by the rating authority, but it does not make any specific provision as to the disposal of the notice itself if there has been an agreement. The Amendment repairs that omission and tidies up the provision.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendments made: In page 35, line 41, leave out '(with or without other land)'.

In page 36, line 29, leave out from 'period' to 'force' in line 30 and insert: 'when that section is not in'.

In line 31, at end insert: '; but the fact that the said section 20 has ceased to be in force in any area shall not affect the operation of that section as respects any period when it was in force in the area'.—[Mr. MacColL]

Mr. MacColl

I beg to move Amendment No. 69, in page 36, line 38, to leave out from the first 'to' to the end of line 39 and to insert 'a newly erected building or dwelling-house include references to a building or dwelling-house produced by the structural alteration of a building included in a relevant hereditament which by virtue of paragraph 6 of this Schedule has ceased or will cease to exist on the completion of the structural alteration and, in relation to a building or dwelling-house so produced, references to erection of a building shall be construed as references to the structural alteration producing it'. This is a drafting Amendment, which makes clear what kind of structually-altered hereditaments are within the provisions of the Second Schedule, which deals with the determination of the rateable values and of the completion dates of new and structually-altered hereditaments for the purposes of the provisions relating to the rating of unoccupied property.

Amendment agreed to.