Regulation 3 Transitional provision for financial year beginning in 1996

(1)

This regulation applies where the relevant year is the financial year beginning on 1st April 1996.

(2)

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations, the reference to the authority’s local non-domestic rating list shall, if no such list is in force, be taken to be a reference to—

(a)

the information received by the authority from its valuation officer under section 41A(8) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, or

(b)

in a case to which paragraph (3) applies, the relevant information.

(3)

This paragraph applies where the authority’s valuation officer supplies the authority with information relating to the rateable value of the hereditament concerned which—

(a)

is contained in a local non-domestic rating list after 30th September 1995, and

(b)

differs from the information referred to in paragraph (2)(a) above; and such information is relevant information for the purposes of paragraph (2)(b) above.

(4)

Part I of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations shall have effect as if—

(a)

the words “of the billing authority and” were omitted from paragraphs 10 and 11; and

(b)

paragraph 12 were omitted.