Supply of information to local precepting authorities
4.—(1) In relation to each financial year (“the year”) a billing authority shall, where any local precepting authority which has the power to issue a precept to it makes a written request for such information in the preceding financial year, supply to that local precepting authority the information prescribed in paragraph (2) within the period prescribed for that information in paragraph (3).
(2) The information is—
(a)the amount determined by the billing authority for item TP in section 34(3) of the Act for the year for the part of its area falling within the local precepting authority’s area; or
(b)an estimate of the amount referred to in sub-paragraph (a) where the billing authority has not, at the time the request is received, determined that amount.
(3) The period is a period of ten working days beginning with the day on which the request is received by the billing authority.