{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-1997/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-1997/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Services Charges (Billing and Collection) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Payments by local authorities to water authorities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 7 below, each local authority (other than those referred to in articles 4 and 5 below) shall pay to the appropriate water authority the sum ascertained in accordance with the following formula:–\n(A-B)×CC+D×96100 Where–\nA is the total amount paid to the local authority in question as council tax or water services charges for the relevant year by persons liable to pay that tax or those charges;\nB is any amount falling within the definition of A above which has been paid by a person and which–\n(a) has subsequently been repaid to him; or\n(b) has subsequently been credited against a liability of his to pay an amount which does not fall within that definition;\nC is the total amount payable as water services charges in respect of dwellings in the area of the local authority in question; and\nD is the total amount payable as council tax for the relevant year in respect of dwellings in the area of the local authority in question.\n(2) For the purposes of the definitions of C and D in paragraph (1) above, an amount is payable as water services charges or council tax if–\n(a) it has been demanded by the local authority from a person appearing to that authority to be liable to pay it; and\n(b) it–\n(i) has been paid;\n(ii) remains payable; or\n(iii) has been written off by the local authority as irrecoverable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/362/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:20.234097+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."
}