This Act may be cited as the General Rate Act 1967.
This Act except section 104(2) and the repeal of section 9(2) of the Distress for Rates Act 1960 shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
This Act, except as aforesaid and except for paragraph 6 of Schedule 5, shall not extend to Scotland.
This Act shall come into force on such day as the Minister of Housing and Local Government may by order appoint, not being earlier than whichever of the following dates is the latest, that is to say—
1st April 1967 ;
the day appointed under section 38(1) of the Local Government Act 1966;
the date of commencement of the first order to be made under section 118(2) of this Act.