Regulation 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The principal Regulations shall be amended—

(a)

in regulation 5 (service of demand notices)—

(i)

in paragraph (2), by the substitution for the words “A demand notice” of the words “Subject to paragraph (3), a demand notice”; and

(ii)

by the insertion, after paragraph (2), of the following paragraph—

“(3)

A demand notice shall not be served before the authority has set amounts for the relevant year under section 30 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992.”^f1;

(b)

in regulation 14 (distress) by the insertion, after paragraph (1), of the following paragraph—

“(1A)

Without prejudice to paragraph (8) below, no person making a distress shall seize any goods of the debtor of the following description—

such clothing, bedding, furniture, household equipment and provisions as are necessary for satisfying the basic domestic needs of the debtor and his family.”; and

(c)

by the substitution for Schedule 3 (charges connected with distress) of the Schedule set out in the Schedule hereto.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1992 c. 14.