Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations–

“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

“relevant authority” in relation to a hereditament, means,

(a)

in respect of a day falling before 1st April 1993, the charging authority or,

(b)

in respect of any other day, the billing authority in whose area the hereditament is situated(1).

(1)

See the definition of “charging authority” in section 144(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 and of “billing authority” in section 144(2). The latter is substituted by the Local Government finance Act 1992, Schedule 13, paragraph 81.