37Recovery of rates from owners
(1)For section 60 of the 1967 Act (owner's liability for rates where occupier entitled to diplomatic immunity) there shall be substituted—
“60Recovery of rates from owners.
(1)Where a hereditament is occupied on terms which provide that the owner shall pay the rates chargeable in respect of the hereditament, an amount equal to so much of any payment made by the occupier in respect of rent as represents the proportion of rates included in that payment may be recovered by the rating authority from the owner, or, where the rent is collected by an agent of his, either from him or from that agent, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as a sum due from an occupier in respect of rates.
(2)This section shall not apply in relation to rates recoverable from an owner by virtue of section 55 or 56 of this Act.”.
(2)In section 115(1) of that Act, in paragraph (b) of the definition of "owner ", for the words " or 56 " there shall be substituted the words " 56 or 60 ".