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The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

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CONTRACTING OUT

This Order makes provision to enable a billing authority in relation to the council tax and non-domestic rates, and a local authority which has the functions of a charging authority in relation to community charges, to authorise another person, or that person’s employees, (a “contractor”) to exercise functions relating to the administration and enforcement of the council tax, community charges and non-domestic rates. The following local authorities are billing authorities and have the functions of a charging authority— the council of a district or London borough, the Common Council of the City of London, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, a county council which has the functions of a district council by virtue of an order under Part II of the Local Government Act 1992 making provision for local government changes in England, and, in relation to Wales, a county council or county borough council.

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

art. 1(3)

The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provision) Order 2014

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para. 6(1)(a)

art. 3

art. 2(1)

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

art. 12(a)

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) (Amendment) (England) Order 2013

art. 2(4)(b)

art. 1(1)

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

art. 12(b)(c)

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) (Amendment) (England) Order 2013

art. 2(4)(c)

art. 1(1)

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

art. 13A

13B

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) (Amendment) (England) Order 2013

art. 2(5)

art. 1(1)

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

art. 13A

13B

The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2013

art. 2(5)

art. 1(1)

PART VINON-DOMESTIC RATING: CONTRACTING OUT

Insolvency59

Subject to article 70, an authority may authorise a contractor for the purposes of collecting non-domestic rates to present to the court—

a

in respect of an amount equal to any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor who is an individual, a petition for a bankruptcy order to be made against the debtor under section 264 of the Insolvency Act 1986 (who may present a bankruptcy petition)19; and

b

in respect of an amount equal to any outstanding sum which is or forms part of the amount for which a liability order has been made against a debtor which is a company, a petition for an order to be made under that Act for the winding up of the company.