# The Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 1989, Regulation 5: Service of demand notices

Extent: E+W

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a demand notice shall be served on or as soon as practicable after–
(a) except in a case falling within sub-paragraph (b), 1st April in the relevant year, or
(b) if the conditions mentioned in section 43(1) or 45(1) of the Act are not fulfilled in respect of that day as regards the ratepayer and the hereditament concerned, the first day after that day in respect of which such conditions are fulfilled as regards them.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a demand notice may, if the non-domestic multiplier for the relevant year has been determined or set under Schedule 7 to the Act, be served before the beginning of the relevant year on a person with respect to whom on the day it is issued it appears to the billing authority that the conditions mentioned in section 43(1) or 45(1) of the Act are fulfilled (or would be fulfilled if a list sent under section 41(5) of the Act were in force) as regards the hereditament to which it relates; and if it is so served, references in this Part to a ratepayer shall, in relation to that notice and so far as the context permits, be construed as references to that person.
(3) A demand notice shall not be served before the authority has set amounts for the relevant year under section 30 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1058/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-collection-and-enforcement-local-lists-regulations-1989/regulation-5
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