Part VIIE+W+S Charges for Local Authority Services

17 Charges for local authority services in England F1....E+W+S

(1)Subject to subsection (3) below, an authority [F2in England] providing a service to which this section applies may recover such charge (if any) for it as they consider reasonable.

(2)This section applies to services provided under the following enactments—

F3(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F3(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e)paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 9 to this Act F4...

F5(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F6(2A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)If a person—

(a)avails himself of a service to which this section applies F7... , and

(b)satisfies the authority providing the service that his means are insufficient for it to be reasonably practicable for him to pay for the service the amount which he would otherwise be obliged to pay for it,

the authority shall not require him to pay more for it than it appears to them that it is reasonably practicable for him to pay.

(4)Any charge under this section may, without prejudice to any other method of recovery, be recovered summarily as a civil debt.

F6(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2Words in s. 17(1) inserted (E.W.) (18.3.2011) by Social Care Charges (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 2), ss. 14(2), 18(3); S.I. 2011/849, art. 2, Sch.