4(1)A community charge in respect of any financial year shall, subject to this paragraph, be payable by 12 equal monthly instalments on such day of each month of that year as the levying authority may determine.S
F1(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)[F2Subject to sub-paragraph (8) below,] where a person is liable to pay a community charge in respect of a financial year or of part of a financial year and the demand notice in respect of that liability is issued—
(a)on or after 1st April but before 1st January in that year, the community charge to which the notice relates shall be payable by monthly instalments payable on such day of such months of the year as the levying authority may determine;
(b)on or after 1st January in that year, the community charge to which the notice relates shall be payable in full on such day as the levying authority may determine.
(4)Instalments (except the first) of the personal community charge and standard community charge payable in accordance with sub-paragraph (3)(a) above shall, subject to this paragraph, be equal to the standard monthly amount of the personal community charge or, as the case may be, of the standard community charge; the first instalment shall be equal to the difference between the total amount of the personal community charge or, as the case may be, standard community charge payable and the sum of the other instalments.
(5)In sub-paragraph (4) above—
“standard monthly amount of the personal community charge” means, in relation to the personal community charge determined in respect of any financial year by a local authority, an amount equal to that of each (except the first) of the monthly instalments by which each personal community charge due to the authority in respect of that year is payable in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) above; and
“standard monthly amount of the standard community charge” has the corresponding meaming.
(6)The levying authority may round off the amount of the instalments payable under sub-paragraph (1) above (except the first) to the nearest 5p (or such other sum as may, in substitution, be prescribed) and adjust the amount of the first instalment accordingly.
(7)Where an amount due [F3in respect of any community charge (including any amount due in respect of the corresponding community water charge)] in respect of a financial year or part thereof or any instalment of such an amount is, after taking account of any [F4reduction in that amount or instalment in consequence of any rebate [F5in pursuance of the Social Security Act 1986 or community charge benefit in pursuance of Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992]], less than the minimum amount or, as the case may be, the minimum instalment (these minima being such as may be prescribed), that amount shall not be payable in accordance with sub-paragraphs (1) to (4) above but shall be payable in accordance with whichever of the folowing ways the levying authority may determine (whether generally or in relation to any case or cases or class or classes of case)—
(a)in full on such day as the levying authority may determine of the month next following that in which the demand notice relating to the amount due is issued;
(b)in such instalments (each of which being equal to or greater than the sum prescribed under this sub-paragraph as the minimum instalment) and on such day of such months as the levying authority may determine.
(8)Where an amount is due in respect of any period before a demand notice relating to that amount or to an amount including it is issued, then the amount due shall be payable in full on the first day of the month next following that in which the notice was issued [F6or on such other day in that month as the levying authority may determine].
(9)Where—
(a)a community charge is payable by a person in accordance with sub-paragraphs (1) to (8) above;
(b)any three instalments thereof are due but unpaid; and
(c)the levying authority give the person notice in writing of the effect of this sub-paragraph,
then, if these instalments have not been paid within seven days of the sending of that notice, the whole amount of that charge for the financial year in respect of which it was imposed shall, so far as not paid, thereupon become payable by him.
(10)A community charge (or any outstanding balance thereof) shall not be payable in accordance with sub-paragraphs (1) to (9) above if—
(a)the person liable to pay it has agreed in writing with the levying authority that he will pay it otherwise than in accordance with those sub-paragraphs; or
(b)it is payable to a housing body under paragraph 5 below.
[F7(11)Where rebates in respect of collective community charge contributions take the form of vouchers issued by a levying authority to persons liable to pay such contributions, the persons liable to pay the collective community charge shall he entitled—
(a)to use any such vouchers collected by them in respect of part of such contributions to satisfy as much of their liability to pay the charge as represents the value of such vouchers; or
(b)to obtain from the levying authority such sum as represents the value of such vouchers.
(12)Where community charge benefits in respect of contribution periods (within the meaning of [F8section 137(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992] ) take the form of vouchers issued by a levying authority to persons liable to pay collective community charge contributions in respect of a contribution period, the persons liable to pay the collective community charge shall be entitled—
(a)to use any such vouchers collected by them in respect of part of such contributions to satisfy as much of their liability to pay the charge as represents the value of such vouchers; or
(b)to obtain from the levying authority such sum as represents the value of such vouchers.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 paras. 4(2), 7(4) repealed by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1; 103:2), s. 149, Sch. 13 Pt. IV
F2Words inserted by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1; 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 para. 36(5)(a)
F3Words inserted by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1; 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 para. 36(5)(b)(i)
F4Words substituted by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1; 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 para. 36(5)(b)(ii)
F5Words in Sch. 2 para. 4(7) substituted (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 90(a).
F6Words added by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1; 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 para. 36(5)(c)
F7Sch. 2 para. 4(11)(12) inserted by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1; 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 para. 36(5)(d)
F8Words in Sch. 2 para. 4(12) substituted (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2 para. 90(b).
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 2 para. 4 modified by S.I. 1991/856, art. 4(5)
C2Sch. 2 para. 4 modified by Community Charges (General Reduction) Act 1991 (c. 9, SIF 81:12), s. 3(4)(d).
C3Sch. 2 para. 4(3) modified by S.I. 1991/856, art. 4(2)
C4Sch. 2 para. 4(6) modified by S.I. 1991/856, art. 4(3)
C5Sch. 2 para. 4(8) modified by S.I. 1991/856, art. 4(4)
C6Sch. 2 para. 4(9)(a) modified by S.I. 1991/856, art. 4(6)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F9Act repealed (prosp.) by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), ss. 117(2), 119(2)(e), Sch.14 (with s. 118(1)(2)(4) and saving in s. 118(3) and subject to a saving for Sch. 2 para. 7A (16.8.1993) by S.I. 1993/1780, art. 2 and subject to amendments (11.6.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(4), Sch. 2 para. 10; S.I. 1996/1509, art. 2, Sch. and (29.11.1999 for specified purposes, otherwise prosp.) by 1998 c. 14, ss. 86(1), 87(2), Sch. 7 para. 15; S.I. 1999/3178, art. 2(1)(a)(2) (subject to transitional provisions in Schs. 21-23)
The repeal of the Act by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) was brought into force (1.4.1992) as regards Sch. 1 para. 19 by S.I. 1992/818, para. 2(b), Sch.
The repeal of the Act by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) was brought into force (1.10.1992) as regards ss. 3A, 9, 10(7A), 11B, 28, Sch. 2 paras. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 5 paras. 2-5, 9, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25 by S.I. 1992/2183, art. 2(d), Sch. (with savings in art. 3)
The repeal of the Act by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) was brought into force (1.4.1993) as regards ss. 1-7, 14, 18(2A), 20(10), 25(1)(3), words in s. 26(1), ss. 26(2), 27, 33, Sch. 1, Sch. 3 paras. 1-4, 5(1), 7, Sch. 5 paras. 1, 6, 12, 13, 16, 19A, 20, 22-24, 26-49 by S.I. 1993/575, art. 2, Sch. (with savings in arts. 4, 5(b))