Section 10: Disclosure of valuation information to ratepayers
Section 10 gives effect to the government’s commitment to allow greater sharing of information on the valuation of non-domestic properties. The section amends the 1988 Act inserting new paragraph 7B into Schedule 9 to the 1988 Act, to enable valuation officers to supply information to ratepayers in relation to their hereditament or its rateable value. The permissive nature of sub-paragraphs (2) and (4) allows for the valuation officer to disclose the information where they consider it would be reasonable to do so and where disclosure would not contravene data protection legislation.
	Sub-paragraph (1) sets out that a valuation officer may disclose the information where a ratepayer has made a request for information that relates to the hereditament and to which the VOA had regard in determining the rateable value of the hereditament. Sub-paragraph (3) makes clear that these requests should be made using the VOA’s online service (which will be brought online before this section is brought into force) or otherwise in another manner agreed with the VOA.