Change 1 Article Choose an article Title and introductory text 1 Rating areas and rating authorities. 2 The general rate. 3 Making of rate. 4 Publication of rate. 5 Demand note for rate. 6 Amendment of rate. 7 Appeal against rate. 8 Restriction on amount recoverable in certain cases. 9 Refund of overpayments. 10 Certificates and statements as to rate, etc. 11 Power and duty to make sufficient precepts. 12 Provisions as to precepts by certain authorities. 13 Precepts by other authorities. 14 Precepts-general. 15 General power for securing payment of precepts. 16 Liability to be rated in respect of occupation of property. 17 Liability to be rated in respect of certain unoccupied property. 18 General provisions as to liability and assessment to rate. 19 Ascertainment of rateable value-general rule. 20 Valuation according to tone of list. 21 Hereditaments containing plant and machinery. 22 Determination of certain questions as to plant and machinery. 23 Adjustment of gross value by reference to provision of or payment for services, etc. 24 Buildings occupied in parts. 25 Hereditaments which are partly occupied. 26 Agricultural premises. 27 Land used as plantation, etc. 28 Advertising stations. 29 Rights of sporting. 30 County and voluntary school premises. 31 Statutory water undertakings. 32 Railway or canal premises. 33 Gas authorities. 34 Electricity boards. 35 Mining, quarrying, dock, rediffusion, etc., undertakings. 36 Tin, lead and copper mines. 37 Hereditaments occupied by or on behalf of Crown. 38 Contributions in aid of rates in respect of court buildings, police stations, etc. 39 Relief for places of religious worship. 40 Relief for charitable and other organisations. 41 Exemption for certain property of Trinity House. 42 Exemption of sewers, etc. 43 Exemption of property of drainage authorities. 44 Exemption of parks, etc. 45 Relief in respect of facilities for disabled persons. 46 Relief for air-raid protection works. 47 Temporary relief for certain hereditaments previously exempt. 48 Reduction of rates on dwellings by reference to domestic element of rate support grants. 49 Right to rebate in respect of rates on dwelling. 50 Right to pay rates on dwelling by instalments. 51 Discount in respect of rates on dwelling-house. 52 Temporary power to reduce rateable value of dwellinghouses, etc. 53 Reduction or remission of rate. 54 Uniform discount in respect of rates on all hereditaments. 55 Rating of owners instead of occupiers. 56 Payment or collection of rates by owners by agreement. 57 Provisions supplementary to ss.55 and 56. 58 Deduction of rates from rent by lessees for short terms. 59 Deduction from rent of rates omitted to be paid by owner. 60 Owner's liability for rates where occupier entitled to diplomatic immunity. 61 Recovery of rates from tenants and lodgers. 62 Recovery of rates unpaid by owner. 63 Deduction from rent etc. of rates by certain tenants of mines. 64 Deduction from rent of rate in respect of land used as plantation, etc. 65 Deduction from rent in respect of rate for rights of sporting. 66 General provision as to deduction of rates from rent, etc. 67 The valuation list. 68 New valuation lists. 69 Proposals for alteration of current valuation list. 70 Provision for objections to proposals. 71 Unopposed proposals. 72 Agreed alterations after proposal. 73 Opposed proposals. 74 Proposals objected to by valuation officer. 75 Two or more proposals in respect of same hereditament. 76 Appeals to local valuation courts against objections to proposals. 77 Appeal from decision of local valuation court to Lands Tribunal. 78 Arbitration with respect to proposals. 79 Effect of alterations to valuation list made in pursuance of proposals. 80 Alteration of valuation list without proposal. 81 Supplementary provisions as to proceedings. 82 Power for valuation officer to call for returns. 83 Use of returns as evidence. 84 Evidence of valuation lists. 85 Duty of local authorities with respect to alteration of valuation list. 86 Powers of entry of valuation officer. 87 Duty of rating authority to give effect to directions as to alteration of valuation list. 88 Constitution of local valuation courts and panels. 89 Schemes for purposes of s.88. 90 Disqualification for membership of panel. 91 New schemes for purposes of s.88. 92 Staff, expenses etc. of local valuation panels and courts. 93 Membership of local authority etc. not to be disqualification in certain cases. 94 Use of public rooms. 95 Remuneration and expenses of valuation officers. 96 Enforcement of payment of rates. 97 Application for warrant of distress. 98 Statement of case on application for warrant. 99 Execution of warrant of distress. 100 Costs of obtaining warrant of distress. 101 Charges for levying distress. 102 Imprisonment in default of sufficiency of distress. 103 Inquiry as to means before issue of warrant of commitment. 104 Attendance of defaulter for purposes of inquiry. 105 Abatement of proceedings on payment of rate and costs. 106 Jurisdiction of justices. 107 Application of other Acts. 108 Inspection of documents. 109 Service of notices, etc. 110 Inquiries. 111 Interest in municipal property not to disqualify. 112 Treatment of certain payments. 113 Power to make rules. 114 Rules, regulations and orders-general provisions. 115 Interpretation. 116 Construction of references etc. 117 Repeals and savings. 118 Application to Isles of Stilly. 119 Short title, extent and commencement. SCHEDULE 1 RATING OF UNOCCUPIED PROPERTY. SCHEDULE 2 TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AS TO VALUATION ACCORDING TO TONE OF LIST. SCHEDULE 3 CLASSES OF MACHINERY AND PLANT DEEMED TO BE PART OF HEREDITAMENT. SCHEDULE 4 VALUATION OF WATER HEREDITAMENTS OF STATUTORY WATER UNDERTAKING. SCHEDULE 5 RAILWAY OR CANAL PREMISES. SCHEDULE 6 GAS BOARDS. SCHEDULE 7 ELECTRICITY BOARDS. SCHEDULE 8 CHARITIES EXCLUDED FROM MANDATORY RELIEF. SCHEDULE 9 REBATES UNDER S. 49. SCHEDULE 10 PAYMENT OF RATES ON DWELLING BY INSTALMENTS. SCHEDULE 11 TEMPORARY REDUCTION OF RATEABLE VALUE IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. SCHEDULE 12 FORMS OF DOCUMENTS A. SCHEDULE 13 USE OF PREMISES AS PRIVATE DWELLING. SCHEDULE 14 REPEALS.
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87 Duty of rating authority to give effect to directions as to alteration of valuation list.
The rating authority shall give effect to any directions which may from time to time be given to them by the valuation officer in pursuance of any provision of this Act authorising or requiring the valuation officer to cause or direct alterations to be made in a valuation list.
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87 Duty of rating authority to give effect to directions as to alteration of valuation list.
The rating authority shall give effect to any directions which may from time to time be given to them by the valuation officer in pursuance of any provision of this Act authorising or requiring the valuation officer to cause or direct alterations to be made in a valuation list.
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