The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Tax Billing, Collection and Enforcement Functions) Order 1996

Security for unpaid rates

60.  Subject to article 67, an authority may authorise a contractor to exercise the function conferred under the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provision) Regulations 1991(1) of entering into an agreement with a person liable to pay to it an amount under section 43(1) of the Act (occupied hereditaments: liability) or section 45(1) of the Act (unoccupied hereditaments: liability)—

(a) charging any interest of that person in the hereditament concerned to secure payment of the amount and undertaking to take no steps for a specified period to recover any payment in respect of the amount;

(b) extending to any further amount the person may become liable to pay to the authority under section 43 or 45 of the Act as regards the hereditament; and

(c) providing for the payment of interest on sums outstanding or for interest payable to be secured by the charge.

(1)

S.I. 1991/141; amended by S.I. 1991/228 and S.I. 1993/616.