The Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices)(England) Regulations 1992

Supply of information by precepting authorities

5.—(1) In order that English charging authorities may fulfil their obligations under regulation 3, every English precepting authority shall, subject to paragraphs (3) to (6), when it issues a precept to a charging authority for the 1992 financial year, supply the charging authority with the information specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The information is information, as regards the precepting authority and the precept concerned, as to—

(a) the estimates mentioned in paragraphs 1, 9, 10 and 11 of Part I of Schedule 3;

(b) the matters mentioned in paragraphs 3, 7 and 8 of that Part; and

(c) the name of every appropriate levying body which has issued a levy to it that was taken into account in calculating the amount of the precept, together with the amount of the levy and information as to whether any of it was not treated as special expenses of the authority.

(3) Information need not be supplied by a precepting authority with respect to the estimates mentioned in paragraphs 1, 9 and 11 of Part I of Schedule 3 insofar as that information would (by virtue of paragraph 3 of Part III of that Schedule) be repetitive of information given as regards a precept issued for the preceding financial year.

(4) Information need not be supplied when a substitute precept is issued to a charging authority if it is not one which would require the charging authority to set a substitute amount under section 35 of the Act; but if in such a case the charging authority subsequently notifies the precepting authority that it has set or proposes to set an amount for its personal community charges by reference to the substitute precept, the precepting authority shall (subject to paragraphs (3), (5) and (6)) supply that information as regards the substitute precept as soon as practicable after that notification is given.

(5) Information need not be supplied by a precepting authority as regards the issue of a substitute precept for the 1992 financial year insofar as it would be repetitive of information given in respect of the preceding financial year on the occasion of the issue of the earlier precept for the 1992 financial year.

(6) Information need not be supplied by a precepting authority if, by virtue of the proviso to the definition of “relevant precepting authority” in paragraph 6 of Part III of Schedule 3, it would not fall to be supplied by the charging authority when it serves a demand notice.