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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-ratepayers-consultation-regulations-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3171",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-Domestic Ratepayers (Consultation) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-domestic-ratepayers-consultation-regulations-1992",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 65 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 requires billing authorities and certain precepting authorities to consult persons or bodies appearing to them to be representative of persons subject to non-domestic rates under sections 43 and 45 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 as regards hereditaments situated in their areas. The consultations must be made as to each financial year and must be about the authorities' proposals for expenditure (including capital expenditure) in that financial year.\nSuch authorities are required by section 65(2) of the 1992 Act to make available to the representatives whom they propose to consult such information as may be prescribed by regulations and is in their possession and control, in such form and manner and at such time as the regulations may prescribe. These Regulations describe the information to be provided which is to include details of their proposals for their expenditure in the financial year to which the consultation relates, estimates of their expenditure in the preceding financial year, and particulars of significant changes in the level of proposed expenditure between the two years.\nThe regulations require information to be sent to the persons an authority proposes to consult as soon as practicable and in any event not later than 15th February (in the case of a precepting authority) or 25th February (in the case of a billing authority) preceding the financial year to which the consultation relates.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3171/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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