{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-administration-and-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-administration-and-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/295",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-administration-and-enforcement-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Charges connected with distress",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 5 is amended as follows.\n(2) In column (2) of the Table to paragraph 1—\n(a) in relation to head A (visit where no levy is made), for “£15.00” there is substituted “£20.00”, and for “£12.50” there is substituted “15.00”;\n(b) in relation to head E (possession of goods), for “£10 per day” there is substituted “£12.50 per day”, and in relation to for “10 pence per day” there is substituted “£10.00”; and\n(c) in relation to head H (prior payment etc.), for “Reasonable costs” to the end of the Table there is substituted—\n“Either—\n(i) £20, or\n(ii) the actual costs incurred, to a maximum of 5 per cent. of the amount in respect of which the liability order was made,\nwhichever is the greater.”\n(3) In paragraph 2(1) (amounts in respect of levy), for “£15” in paragraph (a) there is substituted “£20”, and in paragraph (b) for “15 per cent.” there is substituted “20 per cent.”.\n(4) After paragraph 2 there is inserted—\n“2A No charge shall be payable under head F of the Table to paragraph 1 in respect of the appraisement of an item unless the debtor has been advised of the charge, and the manner of its calculation, before the appraisement is made.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 5 is substituted by S.I. 1993/773."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/295/regulation/8",
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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."
}