http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/20/section/3/enactedLocalism Act 2011Planning (town and country)Council housingTransport planningSustainable developmentCouncil taxenKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2017-01-05 Localism Act 2011s. 158(8)-(9B)Housing and Planning Act 2016s. 121(2)(e)s. 216(3) PART 1CHAPTER 1 3 1 Subsection (2) applies where— a a local authority provides a service to a person otherwise than for a commercial purpose, and b its providing the service to the person is done, or could be done, in exercise of the general power. 2 The general power confers power to charge the person for providing the service to the person only if— a the service is not one that a statutory provision requires the authority to provide to the person, b the person has agreed to its being provided, and c ignoring this section and section 93 of the Local Government Act 2003, the authority does not have power to charge for providing the service. 3 The general power is subject to a duty to secure that, taking one financial year with another, the income from charges allowed by subsection (2) does not exceed the costs of provision. 4 The duty under subsection (3) applies separately in relation to each kind of service.