54The following section shall be inserted after section 74—
“74ALevies: information
(1)Where regulations under Schedule 2 or 9 below impose a duty on a charging authority to supply information to any person, they may also require any appropriate levying body to supply the charging authority with prescribed information if the Secretary of State considers it to be information the charging authority needs in order to fulfil its duty.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1) above a body is an appropriate levying body in relation to a charging authority if—
(a)it has power to issue a levy to the charging authority, or
(b)it has power to issue a levy to a county council which has power to issue a precept to the charging authority.”