PART 8LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE

Council tax

157Removal of power to provide for imprisonment of council tax debtors

1

Schedule 4 to the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) (enforcement) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph 8(1) (commitment to prison), after “provide” insert “, in relation to the recovery of any sum which has become payable to a billing authority in England,”.

3

In paragraph 20 (interpretation), for “paragraph 6” substitute “paragraphs 5(1A)(b)(ii), 6 and 8”.