Notification to appropriate principal authorities4.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, where an appropriate principal authority has notified a charging authority that it requires the information prescribed in paragraph (3), the charging authority shall supply that information to the principal authority within the period prescribed in paragraph(4).

(2)

A charging authority shall not be required to supply the information prescribed in paragraph (3) if at the time at which the charging authority was notified, or after that time but before the authority has supplied the information, the authority is required under regulation 3 to these Regulatons to supply to the appropriate principal authority the relevant population, calculated for the chargeable financial year in relation to which the notification under paragraph (1) was made, of the part of the area in relation to which that notification was made.

(3)

The information is the charging authority’s estimate of the relevant population which it would calculate under paragraph 6 of Schedule 12A to the Act for a part of its area if the relevant population of that part needed to be found for the purposes of section 69 of the Act 4.

(4)

The period is the period of 10 working days beginning with the day on which the charging authority was notified by the appropriate principal authority that the information was required.