SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Non-Domestic Rating: Administration

Collection and recovery

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(1)

This paragraph applies to any sum which has become payable to a F1billing authority under any provision included under paragraph 2 above and has not been paid.

(2)

Regulations under this Schedule may include, as regards the recovery of such a sum, provision—

(a)

allowing a liability order to be made;

F2(b)

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(c)

allowing commitment to prison;

(d)

allowing a bankruptcy petition to be presented;

(e)

allowing winding-up.

(3)

The regulations may include provision equivalent to any F3provision included in regulations made under paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 4 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 subject to any modifications the Secretary of State thinks fit.

(4)

The regulations may include provision that—

(a)

a sum to which this paragraph applies shall be recoverable in a court of competent jurisdiction, and

(b)

such method of recovery shall be available as an alternative to any method F4provided for in section 62A above or included under sub-paragraph (2) above.