50.  The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals Regulations 1989(1)shall be amended as follows:

(a)in regulation 19 there shall be added at the end—

“(2) Where in pursuance of regulation 31(4) of the Non-Domestic Rating (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) Regulations 1990 a valuation officer is joined as a party to an appeal, the clerk shall as soon as is reasonably practicable serve on the valuation officer a copy of the appellant’s notice of appeal.”;

(b)after regulation 31(1)(c) there shall be added—

“(cc) the decision is affected by a decision of the Lands Tribunal, or of a court on appeal from that Tribunal, in respect of property which was the subject of the tribunal’s decision;”.