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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3031",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Deductions from gross amount: county schools",
  "text": "(1) In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, after sub-paragraph (1), there is inserted—\n“(1A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above there shall be ignored any determination in so far as it is made in respect of the occupation of a hereditament for the purposes of a county school (within the meaning of section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996).”\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies to a determination in so far as it is made in respect of a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998.\n(3) Where in relation to a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998 a billing authority has decided that section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 is to apply as regards a hereditament occupied for the purposes of a county school, regulation 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Discretionary Relief) Regulations 1989 shall have effect as respects notice given on any day before 1st April 1998 in relation to such a hereditament, in so far as it is occupied for the purposes of such a school, as if paragraph (3) of that regulation were omitted.\n(4) In this regulation “county school” has the meaning given by section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 47 is amended by paragraph 26 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42), paragraph 65 of Schedule 13 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1059, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3031/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:11.475150+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."
}