Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision for the administration and collection of standard and collective community charges to which co-owners are jointly subject by virtue of regulation 59 of the Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 provides that the duty under the principal Regulations of a co-owner to inform the community charges registration officer if an item in a register is not accurate or up-to-date, or if he becomes subject to a charge, is satisfied if one of the co-owners concerned informs the registration officer; and that the duty of a registration officer to send a copy of an item in the register to co-owners is satisfied if he sends it to one of them.

Regulation 3 applies Part III of the principal Regulations, concerned with billing, toco-owners with appropriate modifications; and provides (subject to any special rights between the parties in particular cases) that a co-owner, or a spouse of a co-owner, who has made a payment may recover an appropriate proportion of it from the other co-owners or other spouses (as the case may be).

Regulation 4 applies Part IV of the principal Regulations, concerned with enforcement, with appropriate modifications.