The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/504
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Section 2 Amendment of Regulations

The Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 3 Commitment to prison

In regulation 41, there shall be substituted for paragraph (6) the following paragraphs—

(6) If—

(a) before a warrant has been issued, or a term of imprisonment fixed and the issue of a warrant postponed, an amount determined in accordance with paragraph (6A) below is paid or tendered to the authority, or

(b) after a term of imprisonment has been fixed and the issue of a warrant postponed, the amount (if any) the court has ordered the debtor to pay is paid or tendered to the authority, or

(c) after a warrant has been issued, the amount stated in it is paid or tendered to the authority,

the authority shall accept the amount concerned, no further steps shall be taken as regards its recovery, and the debtor, if committed to prison, shall be released.

(6A) The amount referred to in paragraph (6)(a) above is the aggregate of—

(a) the appropriate amount mentioned in regulation 39(2) (or so much of it as remains outstanding), and

(b) subject to paragraph (6B) below, the authority’s reasonable costs incurred up to the time of payment or tender in making one or more of the applications referred to in Schedule 6.

(6B) For the purposes of paragraph (6A)(b) above, the authority’s reasonable costs in respect of any application shall not exceed the amount specified for that application in Schedule 6.

Section 4 Costs connected with committal

After Schedule 5 there shall be added the following Schedule—

COSTS CONNECTED WITH COMMITTAL