{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996/article-37",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1880",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996",
  "path": "article/37",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Collection of penalties",
  "text": "An authority may authorise a contractor to exercise the functions—\n(a) where a penalty is payable by a person under paragraph 1 or 2 of Schedule 3 to the Act (Community Charges: Penalties), of serving a notice on the person concerned requiring him to pay the penalty; and\n(b) where such a penalty has been paid by a person and has been quashed under paragraph 1(6) of Schedule 3 to the Act or pursuant to the order of a valuation tribunal or the High Court, of deducting the amount paid by that person from any other sum due from him to the authority under Part III of the Regulations and repaying any balance to him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1880/article/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:43.687150+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."
}