Part III Contribution

Part III Contribution

Non-domestic rating contributions

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(1)     The Secretary of State may make regulations containing rules for the calculation of an amount for a financial year in relation to each local authority (to be called its non-domestic rating contribution for the year).

(2)     Subject to sub-paragraph (3) below, the rules shall be so framed that the amount calculated under them in relation to an authority is broadly the same as the total which would be payable to that authority if there were added—

(a)     any sum paid to them by way of a contribution in aid made in respect of lands and heritages which, but for [section 7 (exemption for visiting forces etc) of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997] , would be liable to non-domestic rates; and

(b)     the sum which, if the authority acted diligently, would be payable to them in respect of non-domestic rates for that year.

(3)     The Secretary of State may incorporate in the rules provision for deductions (of such extent (if any) as he thinks fit) as regards—

(a)     the operation of—

[(i)     section 24A (lands and heritages partly unoccupied for a short time) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966;]

[(ii)

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