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(1)Each new principal council shall establish, and then maintain, a fund to be known as their council fund.
(2)Any sums received by a new principal council shall be paid into their council fund.
(3)All payments by a new principal council shall be made out of their council fund.
(4)Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply in relation to any sums to be paid into, or payments to be made out of, a trust fund.
(5)Section 101(1)(b) of the 1972 Act (delegation) shall not apply as regards the functions of a new principal council in relation to their council fund.
(6)Each new principal council shall keep accounts of sums paid into, and of payments made out of, their council fund.
(7)Any account kept only in respect of the general expenses of a new principal council shall be known as their general account and any account kept only in respect of any class of their special expenses shall be known as a special account.
(8)The Secretary of State may make regulations—
(a)requiring assets of a prescribed description which fall within a council fund to be held in a separate fund within the council fund;
(b)requiring any fund (other than a trust fund) of a prescribed description which is established by a new principal council to be maintained as a separate fund within their council fund.
(9)The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision with respect to the liability of new principal councils to make payments from their council funds in respect of precepts issued under Chapter IV of Part I of the M1Local Government Finance Act 1992.
(10)The regulations may, in particular, include provision—
(a)that anything falling to be paid must be paid—
(i)within a prescribed period; and
(ii)in instalments of such amounts, and at such times, as are determined by the billing authority in accordance with prescribed rules;
(b)that the billing authority must inform any precepting authorities when instalments will be paid and how they are to be calculated;
(c)that if an instalment is not paid to a precepting authority in accordance with the regulations, it is to be entitled to interest on the amount of the instalment;
(d)as to the circumstances in which the billing authority is to be treated as having discharged the liability mentioned in subsection (9);
(e)as to the recovery (by deduction or otherwise) of any excess amount paid by the billing authority to any precepting authority in purported discharge of the liability mentioned in subsection (9).
(11)Schedule 12 makes minor and consequential amendments with respect to funds.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 38: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1
Commencement Information
I1S. 38 wholly in force at 3.4.1995, see s. 66 and S.I. 1995/852, art. 6(1) (subject to art. 6(2)-(5))
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