These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 31st December 1997.
(1)In paragraph 3 of Schedule 1, after sub-paragraph (1), there is inserted—“1A For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above there shall be ignored any determination in so far as it is made in respect of the occupation of a hereditament for the purposes of a county school (within the meaning of section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996).”
(2)Paragraph (1) applies to a determination in so far as it is made in respect of a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998.
(3)Where in relation to a day in a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1998 a billing authority has decided that section 47 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 is to apply as regards a hereditament occupied for the purposes of a county school, regulation 2 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Discretionary Relief) Regulations 1989 shall have effect as respects notice given on any day before 1st April 1998 in relation to such a hereditament, in so far as it is occupied for the purposes of such a school, as if paragraph (3) of that regulation were omitted.
(4)In this regulation “county school” has the meaning given by section 31(1) of the Education Act 1996.