General Rate Act 1967

7 Without prejudice to the power to make regulations conferred on him by paragraph 4(1) of this Schedule, the Minister may make regulations for carrying section 32 of this Act and this Schedule into effect, and in particular—

(a) for determining the manner in which, subject to the express provisions of the said section 32 or this Schedule, any calculation or estimate is to be made for any of the purposes of that section or this Schedule ;

(b) for determining the times at which payments by virtue of section 32(5) of this Act are to be made ;

(c) for providing that the calculations or estimates by reference to which any such payments are made may be treated as either conclusive or provisional, or conclusive for some purposes and provisional for other purposes, and, so far as they are to be treated as provisional, for the making of further calculations or estimates based on information not previously available and for adjusting in the light thereof any payments already made;

(d) for modifying the operation of the said section 32 or this Schedule in relation to any authority if and in so far as any such modification is required in relation to that authority in consequence of any alterations or combinations of authorities or alterations of boundaries.