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Regulation 3

SCHEDULE 1Matters to be contained in demand notices

1.  The address and a description of each hereditament to which the demand notice relates (“relevant hereditament”).

2.  The rateable value shown for each relevant hereditament in the authority’s local non-domestic rating list.

3.  The non-domestic rating multiplier calculated for the relevant year in accordance with paragraph 3B or, as the case may be, paragraph 4B of Part I of Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act(1).

4.  Where an order under section 45(4A) of the 1988 Act(2) is or will be in force on any day in the relevant year, a statement of the days, if any, on which, for the purposes of calculating the payments required to be made under the demand notice, it was understood or assumed that the conditions mentioned in section 45(1) of the 1988 Act(3) were or would be fulfilled in relation to any relevant hereditament, and a statement that as regards those days the chargeable amount is reduced by the proportion provided for in the order as compared with the amount it would be if section 45(4) of the 1988 Act(4) applied to the calculation of the chargeable amount for those days.

5.  Where section 45A of the 1988 Act(5) applies to any relevant hereditament on any day in the relevant year, a statement as regards those days the chargeable amount is zero under that section and a statement of the amount which would have been demanded if section 45(4) of the 1988 Act applied to the calculation of the chargeable amount for those days.

6.  A statement of the days, if any, on which, for the purposes of calculating the payments required to be made under the demand notice, it was understood or assumed that—

(a)the chargeable amount would fall to be calculated under section 43(4A)(b) or (5) of the 1988 Act(6);

(b)the chargeable amount would fall to be calculated by reference to section 44(2) and (2A) of the 1988 Act as substituted by section 44A(7) or (9) of that Act(7); or

(c)rules under section 47(1)(a) or 58(3)(a) of the 1988 Act(8) would apply;

together with a statement of the manner in which the chargeable amount for those days was calculated and of the amount by which the aggregate amount demanded under the demand notice is reduced as compared with the amount which would have been demanded if section 43(4), without modification, and (so far as is relevant) section 44(2)(9) without substitution, applied to the calculation of the chargeable amount for those days.

(1)

Paragraphs 3B and 4B of Schedule 7 to the 1988 Act were inserted by section 62 of the Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26).

(2)

Section 45(4A) of the 1988 Act was inserted by section 1(1) of the Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007 (c. 9).

(3)

Section 45(1) of the 1988 Act was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 5 to the 1989 Act.

(4)

Section 45(4) of the 1988 Act was inserted by section 1(1) of the Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007.

(5)

Section 45A of the 1988 Act was inserted by section 1(2) of the Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007.

(6)

Section 43(4A) was inserted by section 61 of the Local Government Act 2003.

(7)

Section 44A was inserted by section 139 of, and paragraph 22 of Schedule 5 to, the 1989 Act. Section 44A(9) was amended by paragraph 1(4) of Schedule 1 to the Rating (Empty Properties) Act 2007.

(8)

Section 47(1)(a) was amended by paragraph 65 of Schedule 13 to the 1992 Act and section 69 of the Localism Act 2011.

(9)

As amended by paragraph 21 of Schedule 5 to the 1989 Act.