{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2012/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2012/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/53",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Services Charges (Billing and Collection) (Scotland) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-services-charges-billing-and-collection-scotland-order-2012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Obligation of local authorities to make payment to Scottish Water",
  "text": "(1) Subject to any agreement entered into under article 7, and to paragraph (3), for each relevant year a local authority must pay to Scottish Water the sum ascertained in accordance with the following formula—\n(A−B) x C C + D − (E x F) Where—\n“A” is the total amount paid to the local authority as council tax or water services charges for that year by persons liable to pay that tax or those charges;\n“B” is any amount falling within the definition of A which has been paid by a person and which—\n(a) has subsequently been repaid to that person; or\n(b) has subsequently been credited against a liability of that person to pay an amount which does not fall within that definition;\n“C” is the total amount payable as water services charges for that year in respect of dwellings in the area of the local authority;\n“D” is the total amount payable as council tax for that year in respect of dwellings in the area of the local authority;\n“E” is the number of dwellings in the area of the local authority in respect of which water services charges are payable for that year; and\n“F” is the sum of £5.73.\n(2) For the purpose of the definitions of C and D in paragraph (1), 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.\n(3) In the formula referred to in paragraph (1), the value of (E x F) must not, in each relevant year, exceed the total value of—\n(a) (E x F) in article 3(1) of the 2010 Order for the local authority in respect of the financial year 2011-12; plus\n(b) the amount of any payment paid to the authority by Scottish Water in accordance with any agreement made under article 5 of the 2010 Order in respect of the financial year 2011-12.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/53/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:45:25.714283+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."
}