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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Provision of water services: operational matters - Charges for water services - Sharing information

106: Rating information that may not be withheld

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"Information councils must share, even if they've removed it from their records."

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If you are a territorial authority, this section applies to you if you have removed some details from your rating information database under section 28C(3) of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 and you have not put those details back under section 28C(4) of that Act. You must give a water organisation the information you have if they ask for it, even if it is not in your database. You are not allowed to keep secret any details that you have removed from your database under section 28C(3) of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.

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Part 3Provision of water services: operational matters
Charges for water services: Sharing information

106Rating information that may not be withheld

  1. This section applies to a territorial authority that—

  2. has removed particulars from its rating information database under section 28C(3) of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002; and
    1. has not restored the particulars under section 28C(4) of that Act.

      1. The authority—

      2. must provide, if requested by a water organisation, information that the authority holds but that has been removed from the database; and
        1. may not withhold any particulars that remain removed from its rating information database under section 28C(3) of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.