Part I E+W Council Tax: England and Wales

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. I (ss. 1-69) modified (6.3.1992) by Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 18(1)(a)(b).

C2 Pt. I (ss. 1-69) modified (31.3.1992) by S.I. 1992/549, art.3.

C3 Pt. I (ss. 1-69) modified (31.3.1992) by S.I. 1992/550, arts.3,4.

Pt. I (ss. 1-69) modified (28.11.1994) by S.I. 1994/2825, reg. 3

Chapter I E+W Main provisions

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C4 Pt. I Chapter I amended (28.11.1994) by S.I. 1994/2825, regs. 44, 49

Preliminary E+W

2 Liability to tax determined on a daily basis. E+W

(1) Liability to pay council tax shall be determined on a daily basis.

(2) For the purposes of determining for any day—

(a) whether any property is a chargeable dwelling;

(b) which valuation band is shown in the billing authority’s valuation list as applicable to any chargeable dwelling;

(c) the person liable to pay council tax in respect of any such dwelling; or

(d) whether any amount of council tax is subject to a discount and (if so) the amount of the discount,

it shall be assumed that any state of affairs subsisting at the end of the day had subsisted throughout the day.