Statutory Instruments
2024 No. 323
Rating And Valuation, England
The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Made
7th March 2024
Laid before Parliament
8th March 2024
Coming into force
1st April 2024
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 45(1)(d), (9) and (10) and 143(2) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988( 1 ).
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1st April 2024.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008
2. In the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008( 2 ), in regulation 5 (continuous occupation), for “six weeks” substitute “13 weeks” .
Transitional provision
3. The amendment made by regulation 2 does not apply in relation to a hereditament where the period mentioned in regulation 5 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (England) Regulations 2008 begins before 1st April 2024 and ends on or after that date.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Simon Hoare
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
7th March 2024
1988 c. 41 . Section 45(1)(d) was amended, and subsections (9) and (10) inserted, by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42) , Schedule 5, paragraphs 23(2) and (3) and 79(3). See section 146(6) for the definition of “prescribed”. These powers are now vested in the Welsh Ministers so far as they are exercisable in relation to Wales. They were previously transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 2 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 ( S.I. 1999/672 ): see the reference to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 in Schedule 1. By virtue of paragraphs 30 and 32 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32) , they were transferred to the Welsh Ministers.
S.I. 2008/386 , to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.