The Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1990

Arrangements for appeals

31.—(1) It shall be the duty of the president of a valuation and community charge tribunal to secure that arrangements are made for appeals to be determined in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

(2) A tribunal shall not hear an appeal under regulation 16 until any appeal-under regulation 11 in respect of the same proposal has been determined.

(3) Where two or more appeals relating to the same hereditament or hereditaments are referred under regulation 16 or 26, the order in which the appeals are dealt with shall be the order in which the alterations in question would, but for the disagreements which occasion the appeals, have taken effect.

(4) Where an appeal under regulation 16 and an appeal under section 23 of the Act (community charges) relate to the same property—

(a) the president of the valuation and community charge tribunal shall secure that the appeals are dealt with in such order as appears to him best designed to secure the interests of justice;

(b) the community charges registration officer shall be joined as a party to the appeal under regulation 16, and

(c) the valuation officer shall be joined as a party to the appeal under section 23.

(5) The clerk shall as soon as is reasonably practicable give written notification to any person who is made a party to an appeal under paragraph (4).