The Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Finance) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 1996

PART III COUNCIL TAX

Council Tax (Contents of Valuation Lists) Regulations 1992

7.  Regulation 1(2) of the Council Tax (Contents of Valuation Lists) Regulations 1992(1) shall be amended by the insertion after “section 22” of “or section 22A”.

Council Tax (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1993

8.—(1) Regulation 2(1) of the 1993 Regulations shall be amended by the insertion after “section 22” of “or section 22A”.

(2) In relation to a list compiled under section 22A of the 1992 Act, regulation 14(1) of the 1993 Regulations shall have effect as if for the words “since the list was compiled” there were substituted “since 1st April 1993”.

(3) In relation to a list compiled under section 22A of the 1992 Act, regulation 14(6) of the 1993 Regulations shall have effect as if for the words “from the day on which the list was compiled” there were substituted “from 1st April 1993”.

(4) Regulation 15(1) of the 1993 Regulations shall be amended by the deletion of the words“of the Act” and the substitution of the words “or section 22A(10) of the Act, as the case may be”.

(5) In this article, “the 1993 Regulations” means the Council Tax (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1993(2).

Listing Officers

9.—(1) The abolition of the old authorities shall not affect the validity of anything done by a listing officer for an old billing authority before their abolition.

(2) Anything which at 1st April 1996 is in the process of being done by or in relation to a listing officer for an old billing authority in the exercise of or in connection with any of his functions may be continued by or in relation to the new listing officer by whom those functions become exercisable.

(3) Anything done by or in relation to a listing officer for an old billing authority before 1st April 1996 in the exercise of or in connection with any of his functions shall, so far as is required for continuing its effect on or after that date, have effect as if done by or in relation to the new listing officer by whom those functions become exercisable.

(4) Paragraph (3) applies in particular to—

(a) any decision, determination, declaration, designation, compilation, alteration, admission, agreement, record or instrument made by a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(b) any permission, consent, approval, authorisation, exemption, dispensation or relaxation granted by or to a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(c) any notice, statement, direction, certificate, information or order given by or to a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(d) any application, request, proposal or objection made by or to a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(e) any condition or requirement imposed by or on a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(f) any fee paid by or to a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(g) any appeal allowed by or in favour of or against a listing officer for an old billing authority;

(h) any proceedings instituted by or against a listing officer for an old billing authority.

(5) Any reference in this article to anything done by or in relation to a listing officer for an old billing authority includes a reference to anything which by virtue of any enactment is treated as having been done by or in relation to that listing officer.

(6) Any reference (however framed) to a listing officer for an old billing authority in any document constituting, or relating to, anything to which the provisions of this article apply shall, so far as is required for giving effect to those provisions, be construed as a reference to the new listing officer for the new billing authority which is the successor authority.

(7) The provisions of this article are without prejudice to any provision made by or under the 1994 Act in relation to any particular functions and shall not be construed as continuing in force any contract of employment made by any of the old authorities.

(8) In this article—

• “alteration” includes an alteration to a list;

• “compilation” means the compilation of a list; and

• “list” means a valuation list maintained under Part I of the 1992 Act; and

• “old billing authority”, “new billing authority”, “listing officer”, and “new listing officer”have the meanings given in section 22A of the 1992 Act.

(1)

S.I. 1992/553.

(2)

S.I. 1993/290, amended by S.I. 1994/1746 and 1995/624.