The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of BID Levy Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 2004

Demand notices and payments of BID levy

4.—(1) For the purposes of Part II of the 1989 Regulations (billing), a billing authority may authorise a contractor to identify the persons who are liable for BID levy, and to identify those hereditaments with respect to which there would at a particular time be more than one person who is liable for the BID levy.

(2) A billing authority may authorise a contractor to prepare and serve demand notices and any further notice which is to be treated under the 1989 Regulations as if it were a demand notice and, where appropriate for those purposes, to exercise the functions—

(a) of determining whether any person falls within the description of person liable for BID levy (as set out in the BID arrangements) with respect to any hereditament;

(b) where a person is liable for BID levy of the authority as regards more than one hereditament, of serving a single demand notice in relation to the amounts payable with respect to all, or any two or more, of those hereditaments;

(c) of estimating or calculating the amount payable in relation to a hereditament by way of BID levy for a chargeable period or part of a chargeable period;

(d) subject to article 15, of reaching agreement with a person who is liable for BID levy as to the manner of payment of an estimate of the amount payable and as to provision for the cessation or adjustment of payments and the making of fresh estimates;

(e) where persons are jointly and severally liable to pay the BID levy as partners or trustees, of giving a notice which falls to be given under Part II of the 1989 Regulations severally to each or any of the owners or occupiers concerned, or jointly to the partnership or trust;

(f) where a notice which falls to be given under Part II of the 1989 Regulations is given to more than one person in respect of the same amount, of notifying that fact to each such person; and

(g) where under Part II of the 1989 Regulations there falls to be repaid an amount paid under a notice given to any persons jointly and severally liable as partners or trustees, of repaying the amount in question to any one or more of those persons.