{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-and-rating-scotland-act-1956/schedule-THIRD/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/60",
  "legislation_title": "Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/valuation-and-rating-scotland-act-1956",
  "path": "schedule/THIRD/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where immediately before the commencement of the relevant year any lands and heritages are let under a lease in terms of which the tenant is under an obligation to pay to the landlord an amount in respect of owners’ rates, being a lease in relation to which paragraph 1 of this Schedule applies, then—\n(a) on and after the commencement of the said year the tenant shall be relieved of such obligation; and\n(b) the rent to be reduced in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Schedule in any year shall be ascertained by taking the rent payable to the landlord by the tenant in respect of that year and adding thereto the amount payable to the landlord by the tenant in respect of owner’s rates for the year in which this Act passed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/60/schedule/THIRD/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:14:28.409533+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."
}