Levies
3.—(1) A joint waste disposal authority may, in accordance with these Regulations, issue levies on its constituent councils to meet all liabilities falling to be discharged by it for which no provision is otherwise made.
(2) A levy on a constituent council shall be issued by giving the council a demand stating the date or dates on or before which a payment or payments in respect of the levy are required to be made and the amount of that payment or each of those payments.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4) the demand shall be given before 15th February in the financial year preceding that to which the levy relates.
(4) In relation to a levy for the financial year beginning on 1st April 2006, the demand shall be given before 3rd March 2006.
(5) The failure by a joint waste disposal authority to give a demand before the dates specified in paragraphs (3) and (4) shall not render the demand invalid because it is issued on or after those dates.