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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/levying-bodies-general-regulations-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/70",
  "legislation_title": "The Levying Bodies (General) Regulations 1990",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations confer a general power on bodies to issue levies to local authorities for the purpose of meeting their expenses in respect of financial years beginning in or after 1990 where, but for section 117 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, they would have a statutory power to require the authorities to pay those expenses.\nThe Regulations include provisions as to when levies are to be issued (regulation 4), the maximum amount of certain levies (regulation 5), the issue of substituted levies (regulation 8), and the payment of levies (regulation 9) and interest thereon (regulation 10). Where a body may issue levies to more than one authority, regulation 6 provides for the method of apportionment and regulation 7 provides, in certain cases, for the supply of information by charging authorities. Regulations 11 and 12 provide for a local authority to anticipate a levy which may be issued to it.\nRegulation 13 provides for the continuance of existing arrangements whereby certain metropolitan district councils may recover their expenses in connection with debt administration arising from the abolition of metropolitan county councils.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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