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# RATING AND VALUATION, ENGLAND 

# 2020 No. 449 

The Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments and Rates Retention) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 

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The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 143(1) of, and paragraphs 7(1) and (2)(a), 33(1) and (4) and 44 of Schedule 7B to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988( a ). 

## Citation and commencement 

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments and Rates Retention) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 15th May 2020. 

(3) This regulation and regulation 3(1) and (3) come into force on 29th April 2020. 

## Amendment of the Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments) Regulations 2013 

2.  In regulation 6 of the Non-Domestic Rating (Transitional Protection Payments) Regulations 2013( b ) (end of year calculations)— 

(a) in paragraph (1) — 

(i) at the beginning, insert “Subject to paragraph (3),”; 

(ii) for “30th September” substitute “31st July”; 

(b) after paragraph (2) insert— 

“(3) Paragraph (1) applies in relation to calculations for the relevant year( c ) beginning on 1st April 2019 as if for “31st July” there were substituted “30th November”.”. 

