{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/438",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application of Part III",
  "text": "(1) In this Part–\n“demand notice” means the notice required to be served by regulation 14; and\n“the relevant year” in relation to a notice means the chargeable financial year to which the notice relates.\n(2) In this Part, “chargeable person” in relation to a chargeable financial year and a charging authority means a person entered on the authority’s community charges register as subject in the year to a community charge of the authority; and in relation to a demand notice which falls to be issued before the chargeable financial year to which it relates, it includes a person who is shown in the authority’s community charges register as subject to the charge concerned before the year begins and who is not shown at the time as ceasing to be subject to the charge on or before 1st April in the year.\n(3) But a person is not to be treated for the purposes of this Part as shown as subject to a standard community charge on any day on which the property by virtue of which he is subject to it is shown in the register as falling for the day into a class for which the standard community charge multiplier is 0; and references in this Part to a person being or becoming subject to a charge, ceasing to be subject to a charge, or becoming subject again to the same charge, and to the day on which he is so shown, shall be construed accordingly.\n(4) Where references are made in this Part to the day on or time at which a notice is issued, they shall be taken to be references–\n(a) if the notice is served in the manner described in section 233(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 by being left at, or sent by post to, a person’s proper address, to the day on or time at which it is so left or posted, or\n(b) in any other case, to the day on or time at which the notice is served.\n(5) References in this Part to a person shown (or not shown) in a community charges register as subject on a day to a community charge, or to the day on which a person is shown in a community charges register as becoming subject or ceasing to be subject to a community charge, shall (subject to paragraph (3)) be construed in accordance with section 8 of the Act.\n(6) This Part applies (amongst other matters) for the making of payments in relation to amounts that a person is liable to pay in respect of community charges as they have effect for a chargeable financial year; but its application in relation to a charge in respect of which a person has a joint and several liability under Part I of the Act is subject to the provisions of regulations 22 and 23 (joint and several liability).\n(7) The provisions of this Part which provide for the repayment or crediting of any amount or the adjustment of payments due under a notice (including in particular paragraph 7 of Schedule 1) shall have effect subject to section 36(2) of the Act.\n(8) References in this Part to a community charge do not include references to a charge to which persons are jointly subject under regulation 59 (co-owners), and references to a chargeable person shall be construed accordingly",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/438/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:47:36.116122+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}