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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/section-157",
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  "legislation": "asc/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/157",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "157",
  "heading": "Removal of power to provide for imprisonment of council tax debtors",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 4 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) (enforcement) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 8(1) (commitment to prison), after “provide” insert “ , in relation to the recovery of any sum which has become payable to a billing authority in England, ”.\n(3) In paragraph 20 (interpretation), for “paragraph 6” substitute “ paragraphs 5(1A)(b)(ii), 6 and 8 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/1/section/157",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:57.648401+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."
}