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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992/schedule-4/paragraph-12A",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/14",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Finance Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-finance-act-1992",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/12A",
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  "number": "12A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulations under paragraph 1(1) above may provide—\n(a) that, where on an application by the authority concerned a magistrates' court is satisfied that a liability order should not have been made, it shall quash the order;\n(b) that, where on an application to a magistrates' court for the quashing of a liability order, the court is satisfied that, had the original application been for a liability order in respect of a lesser sum payable, such an order could properly have been made, it shall substitute a liability order in respect of the aggregate of—\n(i) that lesser sum, and\n(ii) any sum included in the quashed order in respect of the costs incurred in obtaining it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 12A and preceding cross-heading inserted (18.11.2003) by Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26), s. 82"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:10.132114+00:00"
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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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