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36AAA: Criteria for fixing administrative charges
or “Rules for deciding how much local councils can charge people for their services”
You could also call this:

“This law explains how local councils can change, delay, or show fees for their services.”

You can ask your local authority to reduce or cancel any charges they have set under section 36. The local authority can decide to do this if they want to.

If you need to pay a charge to the local authority, they don’t have to do the work until you’ve paid the full amount. But this rule doesn’t apply to some special types of charges. These special charges are for when people asking for submissions want independent hearing commissioners, or when a court orders a review.

Your local authority must put a list of all their charges on a website that anyone can look at for free. They need to keep this list up to date.

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Part 4 Functions, powers, and duties of central and local government
Functions, powers, and duties of local authorities

36AABOther matters relating to administrative charges

  1. A local authority may, in any particular case and in its absolute discretion, remit the whole or any part of any charge of a kind referred to in section 36 that would otherwise be payable.

  2. Where a charge of a kind referred to in section 36 is payable to a local authority, the local authority need not perform the action to which the charge relates until the charge has been paid to it in full.

  3. However, subsection (2) does not apply to a charge to which section 36(1)(ab)(ii), (ad)(ii), or (cb)(iv) applies (relating to independent hearings commissioners requested by submitters or reviews required by a court order).

  4. A local authority must publish and maintain, on an Internet site to which the public has free access, an up-to-date list of charges fixed under section 36.

Notes
  • Section 36AAB: inserted, on , by section 21 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).