{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996/article-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-tax-billing-collection-and-enforcement-functions-order-1996/article-61.json",
  "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/61",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Amendment of Regulations—magistrates' courts",
  "text": "The Regulations are amended as follows—\n(a) in regulation 21(4) and (5), by the insertion after “the applicant authority” of the words “or an authorised person”;\n(b) by the addition after regulation 21(6) of the following paragraph—\n“(7) In this regulation and in regulation 23(3), “authorised person” means any person authorised by a billing authority to exercise any functions relating to the collection and enforcement of non-domestic rates.”; and\n(c) in regulation 23(3), by the insertion after “given by the billing authority” of the words “or an authorised person”.",
  "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/61",
    "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."
}