{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rating-disabled-persons-act-1978/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rating-disabled-persons-act-1978/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/40",
  "legislation_title": "Rating (Disabled Persons) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rating-disabled-persons-act-1978",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Administration and appeals.",
  "text": "(1) No rebate shall be granted except on an application made to the rating authority by the person entitled to the rebate; and any such application shall contain such information as the authority may reasonably require.\n(2) A rebate shall be granted for such period, being a rate period or part of a rate period, as the rating authority may determine (in this Act referred to as a “rebate period”).\n(3) No rebate shall be granted—\n(a) for any period before the coming into force of this Act; or\n(b) except in such circumstances and to such extent as the rating authority may determine, for any period before the beginning of the rate period in which the application is made.\n(4) A rebate may be granted either by making a payment of the amount of the rebate or, where the person entitled is the occupier of the hereditament, by reducing the rates payable by him.\n(5) An applicant for a rebate whose application is refused by the rating authority may appeal to the county court; and if that court allows the appeal it may direct that the rebate shall be granted.\n(6) In this section “rebate” means a rebate under section 1 or section 2 of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3 repealed (E.W.) by S.I. 1990/776, art. 3(1)(2), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/40/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:21:46.234433+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."
}