Supply of information by major precepting authorities
9.—(1) In order that a billing authority may fulfil its obligations under regulations 3 and 8, the major precepting authority shall, subject to paragraphs (3) to (5), when it issues a precept to a billing authority for a financial year, supply the billing authority with the information specified in paragraph (2).
(2) The information is information, as regards the major precepting authority and the precept concerned, as to—
(a)the estimates mentioned in paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 10 and 11 of Part I of Schedule 3; and
(b)the matters mentioned in paragraphs 3, 7, 8, 9 and 12 of Part I of Schedule 3.
(3) Information need not be supplied as regards the issue of a precept for a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1994 insofar as that information would be repetitive of information given as regards a precept issued for the preceding financial year.
(4) Information need not be supplied when a substitute precept is issued to a billing authority if it is not one which would require the billing authority to set a substitute amount or amounts under section 31 of the 1992 Act; but if in such a case the billing authority subsequently notifies the major precepting authority that it has set or proposes to set an amount or amounts for its council tax by reference to the substitute precept, the major precepting authority shall (subject to paragraphs (3) and (5)) supply that information as regards the substitute precept as soon as practicable after that notification is given.
(5) Information need not be supplied as regards the issue of a substitute precept for a financial year insofar as it would be repetitive of information given in respect of the preceding financial year on the occasion of the issue of the earlier precept for the first-mentioned financial year.