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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996/article-59",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1880",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996",
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  "path": "article/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Insolvency",
  "text": "Subject to article 70, an authority may authorise a contractor for the purposes of collecting non-domestic rates to present to the court—\n(a) in respect of an amount equal to any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor who is an individual, a petition for a bankruptcy order to be made against the debtor under section 264 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (who may present a bankruptcy petition); and\n(b) in respect of an amount equal to any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor which 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1880/article/59",
    "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."
}