Business Rate Supplements Act 2009

Information

8 (1) Regulations may authorise the disclosure of information to a billing authority so as to enable it to identify persons who, as regards a hereditament of the description given in paragraph 2(6), have an interest of a description prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph.

(2) Regulations may for the purposes of this Schedule confer on a billing authority such power as an acquiring authority has under section 5A of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67) (power to require information); and for that purpose the regulations may apply (with or without modifications)—

(a) that section;

(b) section 5B of that Act (offence);

(c) paragraphs 5A to 5E of Schedule 9 to the 1988 Act (civil penalty);

(d) provision made by virtue of paragraph 5F of that Schedule.

(3) Provision by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) may not modify a provision so as to impose a penalty greater than that imposed by the provision being modified.

(4) A billing authority—

(a) may not use information provided to it by virtue of this paragraph except in so far as is necessary for the purposes of this Schedule, and

(b) may not disclose the information (except in accordance with an enactment, in pursuance of an order of a court or with the consent of any person to whom the information relates).