The Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) (Wales) Regulations 2005

Arrangements for appeals

23.—(1) It shall be the duty of the president of a valuation tribunal to secure that arrangements are made for appeals under —

(a) regulation 8 or 13;

(b) paragraph 4 of Schedule 4A(1) to the Act as it applies for the purposes of Part 3 of the Act (in these Regulations called an “appeal against a completion notice”); or

(c) paragraph 5C of Schedule 9 to the Act (penalties),

to be determined in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

(2) A valuation tribunal must not hear an appeal under regulation 13 until any appeal under regulation 8 in respect of the same proposal has been decided.

(3) Where two or more appeals relating to the same hereditament or hereditaments are referred under regulation 13, 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 13 and an appeal under regulation 13 of the Council Tax (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1993(2) relate to the same property —

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

(b) the listing officer shall be joined as a party to the appeal under regulation 13of these Regulations; and

(c) the valuation officer shall be joined as a party to the appeal under regulation 13 of the Council Tax (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1993.

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

(1)

Schedule 4A was inserted by paragraph 36 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

(2)

S.I. 1993/290.