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PART 2Levying Regulations

Exemptions and discretionary reductions and remissions8.

Nothing in this Part of these Regulations—

(a)

requires rates to be paid in respect of lands and heritages for any day where those lands and heritages are under any enactment entirely exempt from rates for that day,

(b)

prejudices the power of a rating authority to grant a reduction or remission of rates under section 3A or 4(5) of the 1962 Act26 or paragraph 4 of schedule 2 of the 1997 Act27, or

(c)

prejudices the power of a local authority to give notice to a ratepayer under section 20 of the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 202028.
Annotations:
Commencement Information

I1Reg. 8 in force at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1

26

Section 3A was inserted by section 140(1) of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6). Section 4(5) was relevantly amended by paragraph 57 of schedule 13 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), paragraph 2(a) of schedule 3 of the Local Government and Rating Act 1997 (c. 29) and section 98(3) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 10).

27

Paragraph 4 was amended by section 28(4) of the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1).