SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5 Local Government Finance Act 1988: Amendments

Non-domestic rating

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Section 55 (alteration of lists) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (4) (content of regulations)—

a

in paragraph (b) after “as to the” there shall be inserted “ manner and ” and at the end there shall be added “ and the information to be included in a proposal ”;

b

in paragraph (d) for “making” there shall be substituted “ andsubsequent to the making of ”; and

c

after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted—

dd

as to the circumstances within which and the conditions upon which a proposal may be withdrawn

3

In subsection (5) (regulations about appeals), for the words from “about” to “its alteration” there shall be substituted

between a valuation officer and another person making a proposal for the alteration of a list—

a

about the validity of the proposal; or

b

about the accuracy of the list

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5

The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (7)—

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The regulations may include provision that—

a

where a valuation officer for a charging authority has informed the authority of an alteration of a list a copy of which has been deposited by the authority under section 41(6B) above, the authority must alter the copy accordingly;

b

where the central valuation officer has informed the Secretary of State of an alteration of a list a copy of which has been deposited under section 52(6B) above, the Secretary of State must alter the copy accordingly.