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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996/article-60",
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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/60",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Security for unpaid rates",
  "text": "Subject to article 67, an authority may authorise a contractor to exercise the function conferred under the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1991 of entering into an agreement with a person liable to pay to it an amount under section 43(1) of the Act (occupied hereditaments: liability) or section 45(1) of the Act (unoccupied hereditaments: liability)—\n(a) charging any interest of that person in the hereditament concerned to secure payment of the amount and undertaking to take no steps for a specified period to recover any payment in respect of the amount;\n(b) extending to any further amount the person may become liable to pay to the authority under section 43 or 45 of the Act as regards the hereditament; and\n(c) providing for the payment of interest on sums outstanding or for interest payable to be secured by the charge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/141; amended by S.I. 1991/228 and S.I. 1993/616."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1880/article/60",
    "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."
}