Local Government Finance Act 1988

4(1)Regulations under this Schedule may provide that where a magistrates’ court has made a liability order against a person (the debtor) he shall, during such time as the amount in respect of which the order was made remains wholly or partly unpaid, be under a duty to supply relevant information to the charging authority concerned.

(2)Relevant information is such information as fulfils the following conditions—

(a)it is in the debtor’s possession or control,

(b)the charging authority requests him to supply it, and

(c)it falls within a prescribed description of information and relates to the debtor’s employment (if any) or income (whether or not from employment) [F1or is relevant to whether another person is jointly and severally liable with the debtor for the whole or any part of the amount in respect of which the liability order was made].

(3)The regulations may include provision that the information is to be supplied in a prescribed form and within a prescribed period of the request being made.

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