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(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.
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(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, andreferences to grid lines are to lines on the Ordnance Survey National Grid.
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(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.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
21st November 1997
SCHEDULE 1
Article 2
Part 1
 The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North West and Merseyside) Order 1997.
 The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the East) Order 1997.
 The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the North East) Order 1997.

Part 2
 The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the West Midlands) Order 1997.
 The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South West) Order 1997.
 The Housing (Right to Acquire or Enfranchise) (Designated Rural Areas in the South East) Order 1997.

SCHEDULE 2
Article 2(1)(c)
Part 1
Bedfordshire Arlesey, Aspley Guise, Barton, Eaton Bray, Stotfold
Berkshire Sunningdale, Sunninghill
Cheshire Caughall, Christleton, Hale, Saughall
Cumbria Grange-over-Sands, Kendal
Derbyshire Hatton
Devon Horrebridge
Durham Easington Colliery, Horden, Murton, Wheatley Hill, Wingate
Essex Mayland, Tollesbury
Hertfordshire Colney Heath, Redbourne, Sandridge
Kent Cuxton, Higham, Long|fi|eld, Meopham, Wilmington
Lancashire North Meols
Leicestershire Castle Donington
Norfolk Wroxham
North Somerset Easton-in-Gordano, Locking
Northamptonshire Irthlingborough
Northumberland Alnwick, Corbridge, Haltwhistle, Ovingham, Rothbury, Widdrington Station & Stobswood|icrl|
Surrey Ash, East Horsley, Send, Tongham
West Yorkshire Clifford, East Keswick, Thorp Arch
Part 2
So much of the London borough of Bromley as lies south of grid line TQ63 (being a line on the Ordnance Survey National Grid) or east of grid line TQ48.

In Northamptonshire, the unparished area bounded by the parishes of Irchester, Irthlingborough, Higham Ferrers and Newton Bromswold.
