4 Multiple substitutions.

The following section shall be inserted after section 35B of the 1988 Act—

35C Multiple substitutions.

1

Subsection (2) below applies if a charging authority is at any time subject to more than one undischarged duty under the relevant provisions.

2

The authority shall discharge each of the duties separately from the other or others, but it may discharge the duties in whatever sequence it thinks fit.

3

Subsection (4) below applies if—

a

a charging authority discharges at any time a duty under a relevant provision, and

b

at that time it is subject to one or more undischarged duties under the relevant provisions.

4

For the purposes of the excluded provisions, any amount or amounts in fact set in discharge of the duty mentioned in subsection (3)(a) above shall not be regarded as an amount or amounts set for the authority’s personal community charges under the relevant provision there mentioned.

5

For the purposes of this section the relevant provisions are section 35(1) and (4) above.

6

For the purposes of this section the excluded provisions are—

a

sections 10(3) and (5), 12(3) and 14(4) above;

b

sections 36(1) and 39(1) below;

c

any provision of regulations under this or any other Act.