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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-contracting-out-of-bid-levy-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-2004/article-10",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/011050903X",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of BID Levy Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-contracting-out-of-bid-levy-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Insolvency",
  "text": "Subject to article 17, a billing authority may authorise a contractor, for the purposes of collecting BID levy, to present to the court, in respect of an outstanding amount which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor—\n(a) where the debtor is an individual, a petition for a bankruptcy order to be made against the debtor under section 264 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (persons who may present a bankruptcy petition); and\n(b) where the debtor is a company, a petition for an order to be made under that Act for the winding up of the company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 45. Section 264 amended by S.I. 2002/1240 and section 170 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/011050903X/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:26.017011+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}