General Rate Act 1967

Section 20.

SCHEDULE 2 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AS TO VALUATION ACCORDING TO TONE OF LIST.

1 Where a proposal for the alteration of a valuation list in respect of any hereditament was served on or made by the valuation officer on or after 3rd December 1965 and settled before 13th December 1966, then if—

(a) a further proposal for the alteration of the valuation list in respect of that hereditament was served or made before the end of March 1967 and remains to be settled ; and

(b) that further proposal is expressed to be made on the ground only that the value or altered value determined pursuant to the original proposal exceeds that which would have been so determined if section 17 of the [1966 c. 42.] Local Government Act 1966 had applied to it,

section 20 of this Act shall apply to the further proposal as if for references therein to the time of valuation there were substituted references to the time of valuation for the purposes of the original proposal; and any alteration made in the valuation list in respect of the hereditament in pursuance of the further proposal shall have effect for the purposes of this Act and any other enactment relating to rating and valuation as if the further proposal had been served or made immediately after the original proposal.

2 Where a further proposal for the alteration of the valuation list in resoect of a hereditament has been served on the valuation officer by any other person before the end of March 1967 but is not expressed to be made on the ground specified in paragraph 1(b) of this Schedule, and that person gives or has given, either before or within one month after the settlement of the further proposal, notice in writing to the valuation officer of his intention to make a further proposal in respect of the hereditament on that ground, any such further proposal made by that person which—

(a) is expressed to be made on that ground only ; and

(b) is or was served within one month after the service of the notice,

shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Schedule as if it had been served before the end of March 1967.