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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-domestic-rating-chargeable-amounts-england-regulations-2016/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111151655",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating (Chargeable Amounts) (England) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-non-domestic-rating-chargeable-amounts-england-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“the Appeals Procedure Regulations” means the Valuation Tribunal for England (Council Tax and Rating Appeals) (Procedure) Regulations 2009;\n“altered hereditament” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;\n“appropriate valuation officer”—\n(a) in relation to a hereditament in respect of which regulations under section 53(1) of the Act (contents of central lists) are in force, means the central valuation officer;\n(b) in relation to any other hereditament, means the valuation officer maintaining a local list in which the hereditament is, or would be, shown;\n“central list” means the list compiled and maintained in accordance with section 52 of the Act;\n“creation day” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 2;\n“defined hereditament” has the meaning given by regulation 5;\n“designated person” means a person designated under section 53(1) of the Act;\n“list” means a local list or the central list;\n“local list” means a list compiled and maintained in accordance with section 41 of the Act;\n“material change of circumstances”, in relation to a hereditament, means a change in any of the matters mentioned in paragraph 2(7) of Schedule 6 to the Act;\n“relevant day” has the meaning given by regulation 4(2);\n“relevant factor” means—\n(a) any matter mentioned in paragraph 2(7) of Schedule 6 to the Act, or\n(b) the extent to which a hereditament is exempt from non-domestic rating;\n“relevant period” has the meaning given by regulation 4(1); and\n“relevant year” has the meaning given by regulation 4(3).\n(2) A reference in these Regulations to the rateable value shown in the central list for a defined hereditament for a relevant day is taken to be a reference to—\n(a) if only one hereditament is shown in the central list for that day in relation to a designated person, the rateable value shown for that hereditament for that day;\n(b) if more than one hereditament is shown in the central list for that day in relation to a designated person, the rateable value certified by the appropriate valuation officer under regulation 19 in relation to that hereditament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/2269."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111151655/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:07:28.900201+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}