Local Government Act 1929

70 Amendment of valuation lists on or after appointed day and making of subsequent lists.

(1) As from the appointed day, the fact of any hereditament in the county of London having in the course of any year become or ceased to be an agricultural, industrial or freight transport hereditament shall, for the purposes of section forty-seven of the [32 & 33 Vict. c. 67.] Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869, be a ground for making and sending to the assessment committee a provisional list and for making a requisition for such a list to be made and sent, and in relation to any provisional list or requisition made on such ground as aforesaid that Act shall apply accordingly, subject to the following modifications, that is to say :—

(a) a provisional list or requisition therefor made on the ground that a hereditament has become an agricultural, industrial or freight transport hereditament shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed; and

(b) a provisional list shall not be -made on the ground that a hereditament has become an agricultural, industrial or freight transport hereditament unless a requisition therefor has been made by the owner or occupier of the hereditament.

(2) As from the appointed day, no proposal for the amendment of a valuation list on the ground that a hereditament ought to be shown therein as an industrial or freight transport hereditament or ought to be omitted therefrom (or, while the first new valuation list is in force, shown therein) as being an agricultural hereditament shall be made under section thirty-seven of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, by any person except the owner or occupier of the hereditament, and every such proposal shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed.

(3) Subsection (10) of section thirty-seven of the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (which determines the date as from which amendments in valuation lists made under that section are to have effect), shall be amended by the addition thereto of the following proviso, that is to say:—

Provided also that in the case of an amendment made on or after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, by reason of any hereditament having become or ceased to be an agricultural, industrial or freight transport hereditament, the amendment shall have effect only as from the date when the hereditament became or ceased to be such a hereditament.

(4) Notwithstanding anything in the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, no hereditament shall, for the purposes of any valuation list which will come into force after the appointed day, be treated as an agricultural, industrial or freight transport hereditament unless it was so treated for the purposes of the last preceding valuation list except upon a claim that it ought to be so treated being made to the rating authority by the owner or occupier of the hereditament in the prescribed form, which shall be supplied by the rating authority on the demand of the owner or occupier of any hereditament in their area.