The Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1993

PART V APPEALS AGAINST COMPLETION NOTICES AND CERTIFICATION

Appeals against completion notices

29.—(1) An appeal against a completion notice shall be initiated by serving on the clerk, within four weeks of the service of the notice, a notice in writing (a “notice of appeal”) accompanied by–

(a) a copy of the completion notice, and

(b) a statement of the grounds on which the appeal is made.

(2) The clerk shall, within two weeks of service of the notice of appeal, notify the appellant that he has received it, and shall serve a copy of the notice on the relevant authority whose notice is the subject of the appeal.

Appeals against certification

30.—(1) Where an interested person in relation to a hereditament in respect of which a value is certified by a valuation officer in pursuance of regulations under paragraphs 10 to 12 of Schedule 7A to the Act(1) is dissatisfied with the value so certified he may appeal against the certification in accordance with this regulation.

(2) An appeal under paragraph (1) shall be initiated by serving, before the expiry of six the valuation officer stating the appellant’s reasons for being dissatisfied.

(3) Unless, within four weeks of the date of the service of the notice of the appellant’s reasons under paragraph (2), either–

(a) the notice is withdrawn, or

(b) the valuation officer and the appellant agree in writing as to the value which should be certified,

the disagreement shall at the expiry of that period be referred by the valuation officer to the relevant valuation tribunal as an appeal against that certification.

(1)

Schedule 7A is inserted by paragraph 40 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).