SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5E+W Local Government Finance Act 1988: Amendments

Non-domestic ratingE+W

30(1)Section 55 (alteration of lists) shall be amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (4) (content of regulations)—

(a)in paragraph (b) after “as to the” there shall be inserted “ manner and ” and at the end there shall be added “ and the information to be included in a proposal ”;

(b)in paragraph (d) for “making” there shall be substituted “ andsubsequent to the making of ”; and

(c)after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted—

“(dd)as to the circumstances within which and the conditions upon which a proposal may be withdrawn”.

(3)In subsection (5) (regulations about appeals), for the words from “about” to “its alteration” there shall be substituted “between a valuation officer and another person making a proposal for the alteration of a list—

(a)about the validity of the proposal; or

(b)about the accuracy of the list”.

F1(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5)The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (7)—

“(7A)The regulations may include provision that—

(a)where a valuation officer for a charging authority has informed the authority of an alteration of a list a copy of which has been deposited by the authority under section 41(6B) above, the authority must alter the copy accordingly;

(b)where the central valuation officer has informed the Secretary of State of an alteration of a list a copy of which has been deposited under section 52(6B) above, the Secretary of State must alter the copy accordingly.”

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