The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989

PART I payment of the aggregate amount

1.—(1) This paragraph applies where the demand notice is issued on or before 31st December in the relevant year, but has effect subject to paragraph 3.

(2) The aggregate amount is to be payable in monthly instalments, the number of such instalments being 10 or, if less, the number of whole months remaining in the relevant year after the issue of the notice less one.

(3) The months in which the instalments are payable must be uninterrupted, but subject to that (and to paragraph 4) are to be such months in the relevant year as are specified in the notice; and the instalments are to be payable on such day in each month as is so specified.

(4) If the aggregate amount divided by the number of instalments gives an amount which is a multiple of 10 pence, the instalments shall be of that amount.

(5) If the aggregate amount so divided would not give such an amount, all but the first instalment shall be of an amount equal to A and the first instalment shall be of an amount equal to B, where–

rounded up or down (as the case may be) to the nearest multiple of 10 pence,

• B=C−((D−1)×A),

• C is equal to the aggregate amount, and

• D is equal to the number of instalments to be paid.

2.  Where the demand notice is issued between 1st January and 31st March in the relevant year, the aggregate amount is to be payable in a single instalment on such day as is specified in the notice.

3.—(1) If amounts calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 would produce an amount for an instalment of less than £5, the demand notice may require the aggregate amount to be paid–

(a) where the aggregate amount is less than £10, in a single instalment payable on such day as is specified in the notice, or

(b) where the aggregate amount is equal to or greater than £10, by a number of monthly instalments equal to the greatest whole number by which £5 can be multiplied to give a product which is less than or equal to the aggregate amount.

(2) The months in which the instalments under sub-paragraph (1)(b) are payable must be uninterrupted, but subject to that are to be such of the months in which, but for this paragraph, the instalments would have been payable under paragraph 1 as are specified in the demand notice; and the instalments are to be payable on such day in each month as is so specified.

(3) Paragraph 1(4) and (5) applies to instalments under sub-paragraph (1)(b) as it applies to instalments under paragraph 1(2).

4.  The demand notice shall be issued at least 14 days before the day on which the first instalment is due under it.

5.  In this Part “the aggregate amount” means the amount referred to in regulation 16(3).