Version Superseded: 16/11/2024
Point in time view as at 26/11/2008. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Local Government Finance Act 1988, Section 50 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)The Secretary of State may make such regulations as he sees fit to deal with any case where (apart from the regulations) there would be more than one owner or occupier of a hereditament or part or of land at a particular time.
(2)Nothing in the following provisions of this section shall prejudice the generality of subsection (1) above.
(3)The regulations may provide for the owner or occupier at the time concerned to be taken to be such one of the owners or occupiers as is identified in accordance with prescribed rules.
(4)The regulations may provide that—
(a)as regards any time when there is only one owner or occupier, section 43 or 45 above (as the case may be) shall apply;
(b)as regards any time when there is more than one owner or occupier, the owners or occupiers shall be jointly and severally liable to pay a prescribed amount by way of non-domestic rate.
(5)The regulations may include provision that prescribed provisions shall apply instead of prescribed provisions of this Part, or that prescribed provisions of this Part shall not apply or shall apply subject to prescribed amendments or adaptations.
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