{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-cross-border-information-regulations-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-cross-border-information-regulations-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1371",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Cross-Border Information) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-cross-border-information-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nCommunity charges registration officers in Scotland, and those in England and Wales, are under a duty to compile and maintain community charges registers under Part II of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 and Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 respectively.\nFor the purposes of assisting them in that duty, regulation 2 requires community charges registration officers, assessors and electoral registration officers in Scotland, and Scottish regional and islands councils to supply (subject to certain exceptions) information on request to community charges registration officers in England and Wales. Regulation 3 similarly requires community charges registration officers and electoral registration officers in England and Wales and English and Welsh charging authorities to supply information on request to Scottish community charges registration officers.\nUnder regulation 4, information must be supplied in writing and within 21 days of the day on which the request is made.",
  "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/1989/1371/note",
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  },
  "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."
}