{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1988/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1988/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/41",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Finance Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1988",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Contents of local lists.",
  "text": "(1) A local non-domestic rating list must show, for each day in each chargeable financial year for which it is in force, each hereditament which fulfils the following conditions on the day concerned—\n(a) it is situated in the authority’s area,\n(b) it is a relevant non-domestic hereditament,\n(c) at least some of it is neither domestic property nor exempt from local non-domestic rating, and\n(d) it is not a hereditament which must be shown for the day in a central non-domestic rating list.\n(2) For each day on which a hereditament is shown in the local list, it must also show whether the hereditament—\n(a) consists entirely of property which is not domestic, or\n(b) is a composite hereditament.\n(3) For each day on which a hereditament is shown in the list, it must also show whether any part of the hereditament is exempt from local non-domestic rating.\n(4) For each day on which a hereditament is shown in the list, it must also show the rateable value of the hereditament\n(5) The list must also contain such information about hereditaments shown in it as may be prescribed by the appropriate national authority by regulations; and the information so prescribed may include information about the total of the rateable values shown in the list.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted for s. 42(4)(a)(b) by Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42, SIF 81:1), s. 139, Sch. 5 para. 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(5) substituted (16.11.2024) by Local Government Finance (Wales) Act 2024 (asc 6), s. 23(2)(a), Sch. para. 1(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/41/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:47.629286+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."
}