Rates (Amendment of
Law) (Jersey) Regulations 2010
Made 1st December 2010
Coming into force 8th
December 2010
THE STATES, in pursuance of Article 49
of the Rates (Jersey) Law 2005[1], have made the following Regulations –
1 Article
1 of the Rates (Jersey) Law 2005 amended
In Article 1(1) of the Rates (Jersey) Law 2005[2] –
(a) for
sub-paragraph (a) in the definition “owner” there shall be substituted
the following sub-paragraph –
“(a) if the land is not let under
a lease or tenancy agreement –
(i) except
in the case of share transfer property, the person entitled to occupy and use
the land either as owner or usufructuary owner or in the exercise of rights of
dower, franc veuvage, seignioralty or
otherwise, or
(ii) in
the case of share transfer property, the company owning the land; or”;
(b) after
the definition “Rates List” there shall be inserted the following
definition –
“ ‘share
transfer property’ means any land the entitlement to the use and
occupation of which by a person arises by virtue of –
(a) the ownership by that person of shares in a
company that owns the land; or
(b) a licence from another person owning shares
in a company that owns the land, such other person being entitled to use and
occupy the land by virtue of owning such shares;”.
2 Citation
and commencement
(1) These
Regulations may be cited as the Rates (Amendment of Law) (Jersey) Regulations
2010.
(2) These
Regulations shall come into force 7 days after they are made.
m.n. de la haye
Greffier of the States