{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-precepts-wales-regulations-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-precepts-wales-regulations-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2562",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Precepts) (Wales) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-precepts-wales-regulations-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations apply only to Wales. They make provision for the discharge by a billing authority of its liabilities to pay amounts in respect of precepts from its council fund.\nRegulation 3 makes provision for a billing authority to make certain payments in accordance with a schedule of instalments and otherwise, and for the circumstances in which certain liabilities of the authority are to be treated as discharged.\nRegulations 4 and 5, together with the Schedule, make provision for a billing authority to determine a schedule of instalments in accordance with prescribed rules. Regulation 6 allows a schedule of instalments to be amended. Regulations 7 and 8 make provision as to the payment of interest where amounts payable in accordance with a schedule of instalments are not paid.\nRegulation 9 provides that the Local Authorities (Funds) (Wales) Regulations 1992 cease to have effect in relation to any financial year beginning in or after 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2562/note",
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  "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."
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