29 Mar 1999
AGRILA LTD. AND OTHERS v. COMMISSIONER OF RATING AND VALUATION
- Citation
- AGRILA LTD. AND OTHERS v. COMMISSIONER OF RATING AND VALUATION
- Court
- Lands Tribunal
- Case number
- LDGA19/1998
S.2 of the Rent Regulations is ambiguous if read literally but is valid and must be interpreted to permit ascertainment of rateable value for government rent in the quantum sense applying rating valuation principles while disregarding the requirement of rateable occupation; the contractor's test is a permissible but not exclusive method; the developer's present intention to redevelop is irrelevant to valuation for rent; however ss.4 and 5 of the Rent Regulations are ultra vires and contrary to Article 121 to the extent that they substitute the aggregate 'last ascertained rateable values' (his…