Regulation 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(3)

Where after 31st December 1992—

(a)

any land or buildings in a district becomes an annual value property, or

(b)

any agricultural land or agricultural buildings becomes part of a district,

the board of the district shall, as soon as practicable after the date on which it has become such a property or part of the district (“the valuation date”), determine the annual value of the land or buildings in accordance with the said Schedule, and that determination shall have effect from the valuation date.”;

after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:

“(3A)

Where a board make a determination under paragraph (2) or (3) of this regulation, they shall serve notice of the determination, together with a statement in writing of the right of appeal conferred by paragraph (4) of this regulation, on the occupier of the annual value property to which the determination relates.”;

after paragraph (5) there shall be added the following paragraphs:

“(6)

From 1st April 1993, sections 64(2) to (8) and 116(3) of, and paragraphs 1(4) and 23(2) of Schedule 2 to, the principal Act shall cease to have effect, and

(a)

the reference to the value of land in section 116(2)(c) of the principal Act shall be a reference to the amount which for the purposes of the drainage rate there mentioned would be the annual value of the land determined as provided in this regulation, and

(b)

the reference to the value of land in paragraph 1(1) of that Schedule and the reference to assessable value in paragraph 23(1) of that Schedule shall be a reference to the amount which, for the purposes of any drainage rate levied at the relevant date, would be the annual value of the land determined as provided in this regulation.

(7)

In this regulation “the relevant date” means the date as at which the qualifications of candidates or, as the case may be, the voting entitlement of electors, is determined for the election in question referred to in paragraph 1(1) or 23(1) of Schedule 2 to the principal Act.”.