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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-administration-and-enforcement-regulations-1989/regulation-40.json",
  "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/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Appeals in connection with distress",
  "text": "(1) A person aggrieved by the levy of, or an attempt to levy, a distress may appeal to a magistrates' court.\n(2) The appeal shall be instituted by making complaint to a justice of the peace, and requesting the issue of a summons directed to the authority which levied or attempted to levy the distress to appear before the court to answer to the matter by which he is aggrieved.\n(3) If the court is satisfied that a levy was irregular, it may order the goods distrained to be discharged if they are in the possession of the authority; and it may by order award compensation in respect of any goods distrained and sold of an amount equal to the amount which, in the opinion of the court, would be awarded by way of special damages in respect of the goods if proceedings were brought in trespass or otherwise in connection with the irregularity under regulation 39(7).\n(4) If the court is satisfied that an attempted levy was irregular, it may by order require the authority to desist from levying in the manner giving rise to the irregularity.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/247",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Community Charge and Council Tax, Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/438/regulation/40",
    "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."
}