
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020 and come into force on 1 April 2020.
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(1) The Non-Domestic Rating (Unoccupied Property) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (rating of unoccupied lands and heritages)—
(a) omit paragraphs (1)(a)(iii) and (1)(b)(iii)(bb),
(b) omit paragraph (2)(a)(ii),
(c) in paragraph (2)(b)(i) for “6 weeks” substitute “6 months”.
(3) In regulation 3 (rating of lands and heritages partly unoccupied for a short time), in paragraph (2), for “6 weeks” substitute “6 months”.
(4) In regulation 5, in paragraph (2) (saving provision), omit “and paragraph (d) of Part 2 of the schedule”.
(5) In the schedule, omit Part 2.
BEN MACPHERSON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th February 2020