Statutory Instruments
1998 No. 694 (C.14)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1998

Made
12th March 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 34(1) of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (Commencement No. 4) Order 1998.

Commencement of minor and consequential amendments and repeals

2.  The following provisions of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 shall come into force on 18th March 1998—

(a)section 33, in so far as it relates to the provisions mentioned in paragraphs (b) and (c) below;

(b)in Schedule 3, paragraph 17; and

(c)in Schedule 4, the repeals in the Local Government Act 1972(2).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Nick Raynsford
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
12th March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force on 18th March 1998 paragraph 17 of Schedule 3 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (amendment of section 36 of the Representation of the People Act 1983) and minor repeals in the Local Government Act 1972.
Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)
The following provisions of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 have been brought into force by commencement order made before the date of this Order.


Provision
Date of commencement

S.I. No.

section 1
18th November 1997
1997/2752

section 2
1st April 1997
1997/1097

section 5
1st December 1997
1997/2826

section 8
1st December 1997
1997/2826

Part III
19th May 1997
1997/1097

section 33(1) (in part)
1st April 1997
1997/1097

(in part)
19th April 1997
1997/1097

(in part)
1st December 1997
1997/2826

Schedule 1
18th November 1997
1997/2752

Schedule 2
1st December 1997
1997/2826

Schedule 3, paragraph 1
19th May 1997
1997/1097

paragraph 2
1st April 1997
1997/1097

paragraphs 11 to 16
19th May 1997
1997/1097

paragraph 22 (in part)
1st April 1997
1997/1097

paragraph 23
1st April 1997
1997/1097

paragraph 29 (in part)
1st December 1997
1997/2826

Schedule 4 (in part)
19th May 1997
1997/1097



(1)
1997 c. 29.

(2)
1972 c. 70.