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Local Government Act 2002

Planning, decision-making, and accountability - Borrowing and security - Borrowing

116: Register of charges maintained by local authority

You could also call this:

“A list of money owed by the council and what they own”

If your local authority has any charges over its assets, they must keep a register of all documents that affect their property. This register must be kept at their main office.

You can look at this register during normal office hours. You don’t have to pay anything to look at it.

If you want copies of anything in the register, or if you want specific information from it, the local authority might charge you for this.

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116Register of charges maintained by local authority

  1. A local authority that has any charge over any of its assets must establish and maintain at its principal office a register of, and keep copies of, all instruments specifically affecting any of its property.

  2. The register referred to in subsection (1) must be available for inspection during ordinary office hours.

  3. No fee is payable for inspection of the register.

  4. A local authority may charge for supplying any person with copies of, or any particulars from, the register.

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