Regulations under this section may include provision that the information is to be supplied in a prescribed form and within a prescribed period of the request being made.

A relevant authority shall consult under this section persons or bodies appearing to it to be representative of persons subject to non-domestic rates under sections 43 and 45 above as regards hereditaments situated in the authority’s area.

Consultations must be made as to each chargeable financial year, and must be about the authority’s proposals for expenditure (including capital expenditure) in that financial year; and the Secretary of State may by regulations prescribe matters which are to be treated as expenditure for this purpose.

An authority shall make available to persons or bodies it proposes to consult under this section such information as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State and is in its possession or control; and it shall do so in such form and manner, and at such time, as the regulations may prescribe.

The matters mentioned in subsection (2) below shall not be questioned except by an application for judicial review.

If on an application for judicial review the court decides to grant relief in respect of any of the matters mentioned in subsection (2)(a) or (d) to (j) above, it shall quash the setting, precept, levy, special levy, calculation or specification (as the case may be).

Each of the functions of an authority mentioned in subsection (2) below shall be discharged only by the authority.

The authority or officer shall supply the information required, and shall do so in such form and manner and at such time as the Secretary of State specifies in the notice.

If an authority or officer fails to comply with subsection (2) above the Secretary of State may assume the information required to be such as he sees fit; and in such a case the Secretary of State may decide in accordance with the assumption whether to exercise his powers, and how to perform his functions, under this Act.

In deciding whether to exercise his powers, and how to perform his functions, under this Act the Secretary of State may also take into account any other information available to him, whatever its source and whether or not obtained under a provision contained in or made under this or any other Act.

The community charges registration officer for a charging authority is a relevant officer.

Personal information is information which relates to an individual (living or dead) who can be identified from that information or from that and other information supplied to any person by the authority or officer concerned; and personal information includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any indication of the intentions of any person in respect of the individual.

Parts III, V and VIIF3, and paragraphs 1 to 4 of Schedule 12A below, shall be read as applying separately, and be administered separately, in England and Wales.

Parts III, V and VIIF6, and paragraphs 1 to 4 of Schedule 12A below, shall be construed accordingly so that (for instance) references to authorities shall be read as references to those in England or Wales, as the case may be.

Any power conferred by this Act on the Secretary of State or the Treasury may be exercised differently for England and Wales, whether or not it is exercised separately; and this shall not prejudice the generality of section 143(1) below.

The regulations may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above exceeds the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above, he may set off the latter in paying the former.

The regulations may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above exceeds the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above, the authority shall set off the latter in paying the former.

The regulations may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above is the same as the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above no payment need be made in respect of the former or the latter.

The first relevant provisions are sections 83 and 86 above, paragraph 5(10) of Schedule 8 below, regulations made under paragraph 6(5) of that Schedule, and paragraphs 9, 12 and 13 of that Schedule.

The second relevant provisions are section 83 above and paragraph 5 of Schedule 8 below.

In the application of this section to England, the second relevant provisions also include section 81 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (recovery from local funds of sums in respect of maintenance grant)

The regulations may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above exceeds the charging authority’s relevant amount the Secretary of State may set off an amount equal to that amount in paying that total.

The regulations may provide that if the total of the amount or amounts mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above is equal to or less than the charging authority’s relevant amount no payment need be made in respect of that total.

The regulations may provide that an amount due from the precepting authority to the charging authority by virtue of provision included under subsection (4)(c) above shall be recoverable by such method as may be prescribed (whether by making a deduction from an amount payable in respect of a precept or otherwise).

This section applies for the purposes of section 141A above.

The charging authority’s relevant amount shall be determined by applying the formula—

AyBC

A is the amount mentioned in section 141A(1)(b) above.

B is the relevant population (calculated by reference to the time mentioned in section 141A(1) above) of the charging authority.

As regards any particular time the relevant population of a charging authority is the relevant population, calculated under paragraph 4 of Schedule 12A below, of the area of the authority for the financial year in which the time falls.

The first relevant provisions are sections 83 and 86 above, paragraph 5(10) of Schedule 8 below, regulations made under paragraph 6(5) of that Schedule, and paragraph 9 of that Schedule.

The second relevant provision is section 81 of the Education Reform Act 1988 (recovery from local funds of sums in respect of maintenance grant).

The power to make an order or regulations under this Act may be exercised differently in relation to different areas or in relation to other different cases or descriptions of case.

An order or regulations under this Act may include such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provisions as appear to the Secretary of State F10the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or the Treasury (as the case may be) to be necessary or expedient.

Subject to subsections (4) to F11(9B) below, the power to make an order or regulations under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

The power to make regulations under section . . . F12 58 above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and no such regulations shall be made unless a draft of them has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

As regards the power to make regulations under section 75 or 118 above F13other than regulations relating to an internal drainage board, subsection (3) above shall have effect without the words from “subject” to the end.

As regards the power to make an order under section 101(1) or (2) above or section 150 below, subsection (3) above shall have effect without the words from “subject” to the end.

The power to make an order under section 104 or 106 above shall be exercisable as there mentioned.

The power to make an order under paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 below shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and no such order shall be made unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

The power to make an order under paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 below shall be exercisable as there mentioned.

The power to make an order under paragraph 5 of Schedule 7A below shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and no such order shall be made unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.

The power to make regulations under paragraph 5 or 6 of Schedule 12A below shall be exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

Before he makes regulations under section 75 or 118 above F15other than regulations relating to an internal drainage board, the Secretary of State shall, by means of a notice in a newspaper or newspapers, take such steps as he thinks reasonably practicable to bring the contents of the proposed regulations to the notice of persons likely to be affected.

An order under paragraph 3 of Schedule 6 below shall, if apart from the provisions of this subsection it would be treated for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.

A waste disposal authority is an authority established at any time by an order under section 10(1) of the M3Local Government Act 1985.

A combined police authority is a combined police authority established at any time by an amalgamation scheme under the M4Police Act 1964.

A combined fire authority is a fire authority constituted at any time by a combination scheme under the M5Fire Services Act 1947.

A charging authority is a special authority if its population on 1 April 1986 was less than 10,000, and its gross rateable value on that date divided by its population on that date was more than #10,000.

An authority’s population on 1 April 1986 is the Registrar General’s estimate of its population on that date as certified by him to the Secretary of State for the purposes of the enactments relating to rate support grant; and an authority’s gross rateable value on that date is the aggregate of the rateable values on that date of the hereditaments in its area.

Chargeable financial years are financial years beginning in 1990 and subsequent years.

Transitional years are financial years beginning in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993; and the first transitional year is that beginning in 1990.

A financial year is a period of 12 months beginning with 1 April.

Unless the context otherwise requires, a precept is a precept under this Act.

Unless the context otherwise requires, a levy is a levy under regulations made under section 74 above, and a levying body is a body with power to issue a levy under those regulations.

A special levy is a special levy under regulations made under section 75 above.

The Common Council is the Common Council of the City of London.

The Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be taken to fall within the area of the Common Council.

Unless the context otherwise requires, “information” includes accounts, estimates and returns.

“Prescribed”, in the context of an order or regulations, means prescribed by the order or regulations.

This section and sections 144 and 145 above apply for the purposes of this Act.

The Secretary of State may at any time by order make such supplementary, incidental, consequential or transitional provision as appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the general purposes or any particular purposes of this Act or in consequence of any of its provisions or for giving full effect to it.

An order under this section may in particular make provision for amending, repealing or revoking (with or without savings) any provision of an Act passed before or in the same session as this Act, or of an instrument made under an Act before the passing of this Act, and for making savings or additional savings from the effect of any amendment or repeal made by this Act.

Any provision that may be made under this section shall be in addition and without prejudice to any other provision of this Act.

No other provision of this Act shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of the powers conferred by this section.

In this section “Act” includes a private or local Act.

Any sums received by the Secretary of State in consequence of this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Part X of this Act, section 150 above, Part II of Schedule 12 below, and Part IV of Schedule 13 below, extend to Scotland only.

Sections 133, 135, 137, 143, 144(1), 145, 146(6) and (7), 147, 148 and 149 above, this section, section 152 below, Schedule 10 below, and Part III of Schedule 12 below, extend to England and Wales and Scotland.

Subject to subsections (1) and (2) above, this Act extends to England and Wales only.