{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-contracting-out-of-bid-levy-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-2004/article-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Liability orders",
  "text": "A billing authority may authorise a contractor to exercise the functions—\n(a) of preparing and serving on any person against whom an application is to be made for a liability order, a reminder notice stating the amount in respect of which the application is to be made;\n(b) where persons who are jointly and severally liable for BID levy are liable as partners or trustees, of giving a reminder notice severally to each or any of the owners or occupiers concerned, or jointly to the partnership or trust;\n(c) where a reminder notice is given to more than one person in respect of the same amount, of notifying that fact to each of them;\n(d) subject to article 16, of applying to the magistrates’ court for a liability order against a person or, where two or more persons are jointly and severally liable as partners or trustees, against any one or more of those persons; and\n(e) where the amount payable is paid after a liability order has been applied for but before it is made, of requesting the court to make the order in respect of the costs reasonably incurred in making the application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/011050903X/article/8",
    "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."
}