The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976

Proposals for alteration of valuation lists

59.—(1) This regulation shall apply (except where new valuation lists are to come into force on the appointed day) wherever an area is transferred from one rating area to another, and—

(a) regulation 3(4) shall apply where such rating area is a district or London borough;

(b) any area so transferred is in this regulation referred to as a transferred area;

(c) “transferor authority”, in relation to any transferred area, means the rating authority from whose area the transferred area is transferred; and

(d) “transferee authority”, in relation to any transferred area, means the rating authority to whose area the transferred area is transferred.

(2) Subject to the provision of paragraph (3), any proposal for the alteration of a valuation list in respect of a hereditament in a transferred area shall have effect as from the appointed day as if it had been made for the alteration of the valuation list for the rating area to which the area is transferred in respect of such hereditament, and any action in relation to such proposal taken by, or in relation to, the transferor authority shall have effect as if it had been taken by, or in relation to, the transferee authority.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply where notice of the date, time and place for the hearing of an appeal arising out of the proposal has been given before the appointed day, and such appeal shall continue with the substitution of the transferee authority for the transferor authority, but otherwise in all respects as if the order had not been made.

(4) Any reference in any scheme for the purposes of section 88 of the General Rate Act 1967 to any relevant area which is altered by the order shall be construed as a reference to the area as altered.

In this paragraph, “relevant area” means a county, district, London borough, parish or community, or Greater London, the City, the Inner Temple or the Middle Temple.