SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 AGGREGATES LEVY: GROUP TREATMENT

4Termination of group treatment

1

If it appears to the Commissioners necessary to do so for the protection of the revenue, the Commissioners may, by notice given to any body corporate that is treated as a member of a group and to the representative member, terminate that treatment from such time as may be specified in the notice.

2

Where—

a

a body corporate is treated as a member of a group, and

b

it appears to the Commissioners that it is not eligible to be treated as a member of that group,

they shall, by notice given to the body corporate and the representative member, terminate that treatment from such time as may be specified in the notice.

3

Where—

a

a body corporate ceases as from any time to be treated as a member of a group,

b

immediately before that time that body was the representative member,

c

there are two or more other bodies corporate which will continue after that time to be treated as members of the group, and

d

none of those bodies corporate is substituted from that time, or from before that time, as the representative member of the group under paragraph 3(1)(b) above,

the Commissioners shall, by notice given to such one of the bodies corporate mentioned in paragraph (c) above as they think fit, substitute that body corporate as the representative member as from that time.

4

The time specified in a notice under sub-paragraph (1) above shall not be a time before the day on which the notice is given to the representative member.

5

Subject to sub-paragraph (6) below, the time specified in a notice under sub-paragraph (2) or (3) above may be a time before the giving of the notice.

6

In the case of a notice given under sub-paragraph (2) above in respect of a body corporate’s having ceased to be eligible to be treated as a member of a group, the time specified in the notice shall not be before the time when it so ceased.