{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-rating-act-1997/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-rating-act-1997/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/29",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Rating Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-rating-act-1997",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Visiting forces etc.",
  "text": "In Schedule 5 to the 1988 Act (hereditaments exempt from non-domestic rating), after paragraph 19 there is inserted—\n“ Visiting forces etc.\n19A (1) A hereditament is exempt to the extent that it consists of property which is occupied for the purposes of a visiting force, or a headquarters, in pursuance of arrangements made in that behalf with any Government department.\n(2) In this paragraph—\n“headquarters” means an international headquarters or defence organisation designated by an Order in Council under section 1 of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964; and\n“visiting force” means any such body, contingent or detachment of the forces of any country as is a visiting force for the purposes of any provision of the Visiting Forces Act 1952.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1964 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1952 c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/29/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:26:08.483665+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."
}