Certificates: general
3.—(1) The relevant valuation officer must certify the values which fall to be certified under these Regulations as soon as reasonably practicable after the authority has requested certification.
(2) A certificate under these Regulations has effect for each day beginning with the date that the circumstances which led the authority to request certification first arose.
(3) A certificate under these Regulations must specify the date on which the certificate takes effect in accordance with paragraph (2) or (4), as the case may be.
(4) Where the relevant valuation officer forms the opinion that a certificate under these Regulations is inaccurate, the relevant valuation officer must certify the value which in that officer’s opinion should be substituted for that originally certified.
(5) A certificate under paragraph (4) has effect in place of the previous certificate.
(6) The relevant valuation officer certifying a value in pursuance of these Regulations must send a copy of the certificate to the authority concerned.
(7) A certificate under these Regulations must be retained by the relevant valuation officer who made it.