{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-15",
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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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Service of demand notices",
  "text": "(1) In the case of a personal community charge, the demand notice is to be served on or as soon as practicable after–\n(a) except in a case falling within sub-paragraph (b), the day the charging authority has set the amount of its personal community charge for the relevant year for that part of its area which contains the residence by virtue of which the person is shown in the charging authority’s register as subject to the charge, or\n(b) if the person is not shown as subject to the charge on that day nor (in the event of a failure to meet the duty under section 32(2) of the Act) on any day in the relevant year preceding that day, the day on which the person is shown in the authority’s register as becoming subject to it.\n(2) In the case of a standard community charge, the demand notice is to be served on or as soon as practicable after–\n(a) except in a case falling within sub-paragraph (b), the day the charging authority has set the amount of its personal community charge for the relevant year for that part of its area which contains the property by virtue of which the person is shown in the charging authority’s register as subject to the charge, or\n(b) if the person is not shown as subject to the charge on that day nor (in the event of a failure to meet the duty under section 32(2) of the Act) on any day in the relevant year preceding that day, the day on which the person is shown in the authority’s register as becoming subject to it.\n(3) In the case of a collective community charge, the demand notice is to be served on or as soon as practicable after–\n(a) except in a case falling within sub-paragraph (b), the day the charging authority has set the amount of its personal community charge for the relevant year for that part of its area which contains the building constituting or containing the designated dwelling by virtue of which the person is shown in the charging authority’s register as subject to the charge, or\n(b) if the person is not shown as subject to the charge on that day nor (in the event of a failure to meet the duty under section 32(2) of the Act) on any day in the relevant year preceding that day, the day on which the person is shown in the authority’s register as becoming subject to it.\n(4) The part of a charging authority’s area in which a residence, property or building is situated shall be determined for the purposes of this regulation in accordance with any rules for the time being in force under section 10(6), 12(6) or 14(7) of the Act (as the case may be).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "modified",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/242",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/438/regulation/15",
    "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."
}