Local Government Act 1974

11 The statutory rate rebate scheme

(1) The Secretary of State shall by regulations make, with the consent of the Treasury, a scheme (in this Part of this Act referred to as " the statutory rate rebate scheme ") for the grant by rating authorities to residential occupiers of rebates from rates calculated in accordance with the provisions of the scheme by reference to their needs and their resources.

(2) The statutory rate rebate scheme shall have effect in respect of rebate periods beginning on or after 1st April 1974, and accordingly no person shall be entitled in respect of any such rebate period to a rate rebate under section 49 of the principal Act.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1) above, the statutory rate rebate scheme may contain provisions corresponding, so far as the Secretary of State considers appropriate, to provisions of Part I of Schedule 3 or Part I of Schedule 4 to the [1972 c. 47.] Housing Finance Act 1972 (model schemes of rent rebates and rent allowances).

(4) In this Part of this Act " rebate period " means such period as may be determined in accordance with the statutory rate rebate scheme, and that scheme may make provision for the determination of different periods in relation to different residential occupiers or different classes of residential occupiers.