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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-miscellaneous-provisions-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2274",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-miscellaneous-provisions-no-2-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Community charges: enforcement",
  "text": "(1) Part IV of the principal Regulations (enforcement) is amended in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph (6) of regulation 29, for the words “The order shall” there are substituted the words “An order made pursuant to paragraph (5) shall”; and after that paragraph there is inserted –\n“(7) Where the sum payable is paid after a liability order has been applied for under paragraph (2) but before it is made, the court shall nonetheless (if so requested by the charging authority) make the order in respect of a sum of an amount equal to the costs reasonably incurred by the authority in making the application.”.\n(3) In regulation 30(1), after the words “such amount” there are inserted the words “(or aggregate amount)”, and after the words “regulation 29(6)” there are inserted the words “and (7)”.\n(4) In regulation 31(3), after sub-paragraph (e) there is inserted –\n“(f) where the liability order was made in respect of an amount payable in relation to a personal or standard community charge, information as to whether another person is jointly and severally liable as spouse of the debtor for the whole or any part of that amount; or\n(g) where the liability order was made in respect of an amount payable in relation to a standard community charge and the debtor is a company, or it was made in respect of an amount payable in relation to a collective community charge, information as to whether another person is jointly and severally liable as manager of the debtor for the whole or any part of that amount.”.\n(5) After regulation 31(4) there is inserted –\n“(5) In paragraph (3), “spouse” and “manager” have the same meaning as in sections 16 and 17 of the Act.”.\n(6) In regulation 43(2), the words “of that Act” are omitted, and at the end there are inserted the words “or, as the case may be, 221(5)(b) (winding up of unregistered companies) of that Act”.\n(7) In regulation 44(1)(a), after the words “liability order” there are inserted the words “pursuant to regulation 29(5)”.\n(8) In regulation 46(2) –\n(a) after the words “may not be taken” there are inserted the words “against a person under a liability order”; and\n(b) at the end there are inserted the words “against him under it”.\n(9) In regulation 48(8) –\n(a) for the words “against that one” there are substituted the words “against any of them”; and\n(b) after the words “distress” there are inserted the words “bankruptcy, winding up”.\n(10) In regulation 48(12), after the words “regulation 29(6)(b)” (in both places where they occur) there are substituted the words “or (7)”.\n(11) After regulation 48(12) there is inserted –\n“(12A) Paragraph (12) is not to be construed as permitting a charging authority to apply under regulation 29(2) for a liability order against a spouse or manager in respects of costs alone after an order has been made for those costs against the chargeable person.”.\n(12) In regulation 52(3)(a), for the words “23(4)” there are substituted the words “21A(5) or (8), 23(3) or (4)”.\n(13) In column (2) of head A of the Table to paragraph 1 of Schedule 5, for the words “not greater than” there are substituted the words “equal to”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2274/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:33:37.768827+00:00"
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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."
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