General Rate Act 1967

69Proposals for alteration of current valuation list.

(1)Subject to subsection (6) of this section, any person (including a rating authority) who is aggrieved—

(a)by the inclusion of any hereditament in the valuation list; or

(b)by any value ascribed in the list to a hereditament or by any other statement made or omitted to be made in the list with respect to a hereditament; or

(c)in the case of a building or portion of a building occupied in parts, by the valuation in the list of that building or portion of a building as a single hereditament,

may at any time make a proposal for the alteration of the list so far as it relates to that hereditament.

(2)Subject to subsection (6) of this section, the valuation officer may at any time make a proposal for any alteration of a valuation list and in particular, in addition to the proposals authorised or required by, or by virtue of, the following provisions of this Act, namely, paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 1, paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 4, paragraph 8(4) of Schedule 5, paragraph 13 of Schedule 6 and paragraph 15 of Schedule 7, shall from time to time make such proposals as may be requisite—

(a)for deleting from the list any premises exempted from rating by virtue of section 33(1)(b) of this Act;

(b)for excluding from the list any premises which form part of a hereditament shown in the list and which, by virtue of section 33(1)(#) or (b) of this Act, are not liable to be rated, and for including in the list, as one or more separate hereditaments, so much of any such hereditament as remains liable to be rated ;

(c)for altering the list in consequence of any event whereby premises cease to be within the exemption from rating conferred by section 32(3), 33(1) or 34(1) of this Act.

(3)Without prejudice to any right exercisable by rating authorities by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, where—

(a)it appears to a rating authority that a hereditament in their rating area which is not included in the list ought to be included therein ; and

(b)the valuation officer gives notice in writing to the rating authority that he does not intend to make a proposal for inserting that hereditament in the list,

the rating authority, at any time within twenty-eight days after the date on which that notice was given, may make a proposal for the alteration of the list by the insertion of that hereditament therein.

(4)Where a proposal in relation to a hereditament has been made under the foregoing provisions of this section, a further proposal for the alteration of the list in relation to that hereditament may be so made which is contingent on an alteration being made in consequence of the earlier proposal.

(5)Every proposal under this section must—

(a)be made in writing ; and

(b)specify the grounds on which the proposed alteration is supported; and

(c)comply with any requirements of any regulations made by the Minister with respect to the form of such proposals and otherwise with respect to the making thereof,

and every such proposal made otherwise than by the valuation officer must be served on the valuation officer.

(6)No proposal shall be made under this section—

(a)for the alteration of a valuation list so far as it relates to a hereditament included in the list by virtue of paragraph 10(6) of Schedule 6 or paragraph 14(6) of Schedule 7 to this Act; or

(b)save as provided by paragraph 4(1) or 5(2), or by an order under paragraph 10, of Schedule 4 to this Act, for the alteration of the rateable value of a water hereditament within the meaning of section 31 of this Act;

and the provisions of this section shall have effect subject to the provisions of any order under section 35 of this Act.