# The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) Regulations 1989, Paragraph 2: Assumptions as to gross amount


(1) It shall be assumed that the hereditaments shown for each relevant day will be the hereditaments shown in the authority’s local non-domestic rating list on 31st December in the immediately preceding year.
(2) It shall be assumed that the rateable value of each hereditament will on each relevant day be the rateable value shown for the hereditament in the list on 31st December in the immediately preceding year.
(3) It shall be assumed that the person in occupation of a hereditament on each relevant day will be the person in occupation of the hereditament on 31st December in the immediately preceding year.
(4) Where on 31st December in the immediately preceding year a hereditament is unoccupied, it shall be assumed that the hereditament became unoccupied on that day and will remain unoccupied on each relevant day, and that the owner of the hereditament will be the owner of the hereditament on 31st December in that year.
(5) Where the year to which the calculation relates is a year in which local non-domestic rating lists are compiled under section 41(1) of the Act, it shall be assumed that the hereditaments shown in an authority’s local non-domestic rating list, and the rateable value of those hereditaments, are the hereditaments, and the rateable values, shown in the list which the valuation officer for the authority proposes to compile in that year and which he has sent to the authority under section 41(5) of the Act.
(6) Where the year to which a calculation relates is the financial year beginning 1st April 1990 it shall be assumed that the person in occupation of a hereditament, or the owner of a hereditament, is the person who on 31st December 1989 would have been the occupier or owner for the purposes of the Act had the financial year beginning 1st April 1989 been a chargeable financial year.
(7) It shall be assumed that the amount calculated for the authority in accordance with the assumptions prescribed in sub-paragraphs (1) to (6) above is that amount multiplied by the percentage for projected change in rateable values prescribed in relation to the authority in Part II of this Schedule.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2435/schedule/2/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-rating-contributions-england-regulations-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-2
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