30(1)Section 55 (alteration of lists) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (4) (content of regulations)—
(a)in paragraph (b) after “as to the” there shall be inserted “manner and” and at the end there shall be added “and the information to be included in a proposal”;
(b)in paragraph (d) for “making” there shall be substituted “and subsequent to the making of”; and
(c)after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted—
“(dd)as to the circumstances within which and the conditions upon which a proposal may be withdrawn”.
(3)In subsection (5) (regulations about appeals), for the words from “about” to “its alteration” there shall be substituted “between a valuation officer and another person making a proposal for the alteration of a list—
(a)about the validity of the proposal; or
(b)about the accuracy of the list”.
(4)In subsection (7)(b) the words “at a prescribed rate” shall be omitted.
(5)The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (7)—
“(7A)The regulations may include provision that—
(a)where a valuation officer for a charging authority has informed the authority of an alteration of a list a copy of which has been deposited by the authority under section 41(6B) above, the authority must alter the copy accordingly;
(b)where the central valuation officer has informed the Secretary of State of an alteration of a list a copy of which has been deposited under section 52(6B) above, the Secretary of State must alter the copy accordingly.”