Article 2 Additional factors in connection with the specification of classes

Subsection (11) of section 40 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 is amended by inserting at the end of the subsection the following paragraphs —

“(g)

the periods for which unoccupied properties have previously been occupied;

(h)

the period for which properties would have been unoccupied if all or some periods of occupation were treated as periods during which the properties were unoccupied;

(i)

in the case of properties comprised in a deceased’s estate, the period which has elapsed since a grant of probate or of letters of administration was made.”.