Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

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Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister,

are published separately as Bill 57—EN.

EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Mr Secretary Prescott has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the

Human Rights Act 1998:

In my view the provisions of the Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

are compatible with the Convention rights.

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Dates on which new valuation lists must be compiled for England

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Short title and extent

Bill 57

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Bill

To

Make provision about the dates on which new valuation lists for the purposes

of council tax must be compiled in relation to billing authorities in England.

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and

consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Dates on which new valuation lists must be compiled for England

(1)

Section 22B of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) (compilation and

maintenance of new valuation lists) is amended as mentioned in subsections

(2) to (5).

(2)

After subsection (1) insert—

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“(1A)

A new list must be compiled, in relation to billing authorities in

England, on 1 April in each year specified by order made by the

Secretary of State.”

(3)

In subsection (2), paragraph (a) (first date on which new valuation list must be

compiled in relation to billing authorities in England), and the word “and”

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following it, are repealed.

(4)

In subsection (3) (subsequent dates on which new lists must be compiled)—

(a)

after “a new list must be compiled” insert “in relation to billing

authorities in Wales”;

(b)

the words from the beginning of paragraph (a) to “Wales,” in

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paragraph (b) are repealed.

(5)

In subsection (11) for “subsection (3)(a)” substitute “subsection (1A)”.

(6)

In section 113 of that Act (orders and regulations), in subsection (3)(a), for

“22B(3)(a),” substitute “22B(1A),”.

(7)

In the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26), in Schedule 7 (minor and

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consequential amendments), paragraph 52(4) is repealed.

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Short title and extent

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England)

Act 2005.

(2)

The amendments and repeals made by this Act have the same extent as the

enactments to which they relate.

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