Regulation 5 Exemptions and discretionary reductions and remissionsI1

Scotland

Nothing in these Regulations–

(a)

shall require rates to be paid in respect of lands and heritages for any day where those lands and heritages are under any enactment entirely exempt from rates for that day; or

(b)

shall prejudice the power of a rating authority to grant a reduction or remission of rates under section 4(5) of the 1962 Act^f1, section 25A of the 1966 Act^f2 or paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the 1997 Act^f3.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 5 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: Section 4(5) was amended by the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982, section 5(1)(b), the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), Schedule 13, paragraph 57, and the Local Government and Rating Act 1997, Schedule 3, paragraph 2(a).
f2: Section 25A was inserted by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), section 156.
f3: Paragraph 4 was amended by section 28 of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003, asp 1.