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# Rating and Valuation Act 1961 (repealed 1.11.1996)

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Rating and Valuation Act 1961 (repealed 1.11.1996)
1961 c.45

## 1 Rating of industrial and freight-transport hereditaments. {#section-1}

No reduction in rateable value shall be made under section sixty-eight of the Local Government Act, 1929 (which provided for relief from rates in respect of industrial and freight-transport hereditaments) for the purposes of valuation lists coming into force after the passing of this Act.

## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-24.}



## 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-5}



## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-610.}



## 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-11}



## 12 †Provisions supplementary to foregoing section. {#section-12}

(1)—(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that for the purposes of the Education Act, 1944, the expenses of maintaining a voluntary school include the payment of rates.

## 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1317.}



## 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-1823.}



## 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2428.}



## 29 †Short title, repeals, saving and extent. {#section-29}

(1) This Act may be cited as the Rating and Valuation Act 1961.
(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.

## FIRST TO FIFTH SCHEDULES {#schedule-FIRST-TO-FIFTHS}

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