Local Government Act 1974

14 Supplementary provisions as to eligibility for rate rebates

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, no residential occupier liable for rates in respect of a hereditament in any area shall be eligible to apply for a rate rebate under the statutory rate rebate scheme in respect of those rates for any rebate period during which a local rate rebate scheme is in operation in that area.

(2) If any such residential occupier as is referred to in subsection (1) above shows to the satisfaction of the rating authority that the local rate rebate scheme does not in his case fulfil the condition in section 12(3)(a) above, he shall be eligible to apply for a rate rebate under the statutory rate rebate scheme and, if he makes such an application for any rebate period, he shall cease to be eligible to make an application for that period under the local rate rebate scheme.

(3) If, in a case where a residential occupier is liable for rates in respect of a hereditament for a rate period beginning on or after 1st April 1974,—

(a) the residential occupier is entitled to a rebate from those rates under the statutory rate rebate scheme or a local rate rebate scheme, and

(b) the rating authority affords him relief in respect of those rates under section 53 of the principal Act (reduction or remission of payment of rates on account of poverty),

the rating authority shall grant him a rebate as mentioned in paragraph (a) above only if, and to the extent that, the amount of the rebate exceeds the aggregate amount afforded him as mentioned in paragraph (b) above.

(4) In section 16(2) of the [1966 c. 20.] Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 (rate rebates to which persons in receipt of supplementary benefit might otherwise be entitled reduced if their requirements were determined without regard to any rate rebate) for the words " section 5 of the Rating Act 1966 " there shall be substituted the words " a scheme under section 11 or section 12 of the Local Government Act 1974 ".