The Business Improvement Districts (Scotland) Regulations 2007 No. 202

Payment of costs of a ballot

12.—(1) The local authority may require the BID proposer or the BID body to pay the costs of arranging and holding the ballot, and the local authority may recover this amount as a civil debt due to it.

(2) Where paragraph (1) applies, the ballot holder may require the BID proposer or the BID body to pay the costs of arranging and holding the ballot, and the ballot holder may recover this amount as a civil debt due to it.