# The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996, Article 56: Executors and administrators—non-domestic rates


An authority may authorise a contractor to exercise the functions of—
(a) receiving any sum which the executor or administrator of a deceased person who, at any time before his death, was (or is alleged to have been) subject to a non-domestic rate is liable to pay by virtue of regulations made under section 63 of the Act (death);
(b) giving to such an executor or administrator a notice requiring the payment of such a sum;
(c) paying to such an executor or administrator a sum paid by the deceased person before his death in excess of his liability to pay a non-domestic rate or any costs incurred in the enforcement of his liability to pay a non-domestic rate; and
(d) taking steps for the recovery of any sum from such an executor or administrator.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1880/article/56 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996/article-56
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