The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1993

Joint and several liability: enforcement

7.  In regulation 54—

(a) after paragraph (9) there is inserted the following paragraph—

“(9A) Where a liability order has been made against persons who are joint taxpayers, and a warrant of commitment is issued against (or a term of imprisonment is fixed in the case of) one of them under regulation 47(3), no steps, or further steps, may be taken under the Income Support Regulations in respect of any of them in relation to the amount mentioned in regulation 47(4).”; and

(b) for paragraph (11) there is substituted the following paragraph—

“(11) Where—

(a) a liability order has been made against two or more joint taxpayers in respect of an amount; and

(b) a charge has arisen as regards one of them under head B of the Table in paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 in respect of that amount,

no further charge may be aggregated for the purposes of regulation 45(2) under that head or head A of that Table in consequence of any subsequent levy or attempted levy against either in respect of that amount; and a charge under head A(i) or charges under that head and head A(ii) against one of them shall be treated for those purposes as a charge or, as the case may be, charges under that head with respect to the other as well as that one.”.