Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make further provision with respect to Schedule 7A to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in relation to the transition between the amounts of rates payable in respect of certain non-domestic property under the General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9) and under the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

Regulation 2 secures that occupation by a waste disposal contractor, pursuant to Part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, of property formerly occupied, or if not occupied, owned, by an existing waste disposal authority does not affect the operation of the transitional arrangements in respect of that property.