Section 138 No discretionary rate relief for functional bodies.

Section 47 of the M1Local Government Finance Act 1988 (discretionary relief) shall be amended as follows.

In subsection (9) (which provides that a hereditament is an excepted hereditament, and accordingly not eligible for relief, if all or part of it is occupied by any body there mentioned) at the end of paragraph (b) (which relates to precepting authorities) there shall be added

“; or

(c)

a functional body, within the meaning of the Greater London Authority Act 1999”.