Regulation 3 Supply of information to community charges registration officers in Scotland

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), any person mentioned in paragraph (2) shall, in accordance with regulation 4, supply to a community charges registration officer for a Scottish region or islands area such information as fulfils the following conditions–

(a)

it is in the possession or control of the person concerned,

(b)

the registration officer requests (by notice given in writing) the person concerned to supply it,

(c)

it is requested by the registration officer for the purpose of carrying out his functions under the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987^f1, and

(d)

it does not fall within any description of information in paragraph (3) which need not be supplied.

(2)

The persons are–

(a)

the community charges registration officer for an English or Welsh charging authority,

(b)

an English or Welsh charging authority, and

(c)

the electoral registration officer for any area in England and Wales.

(3)

Information need not be supplied if it falls within any of the following descriptions–

(a)

the information consists of other than the name, address and any past or present place of residence of any person and the dates during which he is known or thought to have resided at that place,

(b)

in the case of information in the possession or control of an English or Welsh charging authority–

(i)

it is information relating to employees, former employees or applicants to become employees of such a council, being information held for the purposes of such employment or prospective employment, or

(ii)

it is information held for the purposes of, or in connection with, the functions of such a council (or a committee of such a council) as police authority, or as a constituent council of such an authority.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1987 c. 47, amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12.