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Planning Bill

Key roles - Functions and powers of central and local government - Administrative charges

192: Other matters relating to administrative charges

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"Rules about paying or not paying charges to the council"

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You can have a charge waived by a territorial authority. They can choose to waive all or part of the charge. This is for charges mentioned in section 191. You must pay a charge before a territorial authority acts on it. They do not have to do the work until you pay the charge in full. However, this rule does not apply to some charges for independent hearings panels. A territorial authority must keep a list of charges on a website. The list must be up to date and free for the public to access. The charges are those fixed under section 191.

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Part 5Key roles
Functions and powers of central and local government: Administrative charges

192Other matters relating to administrative charges

  1. A territorial authority may waive the whole or any part of any charge of a kind referred to in section 191 that would be payable in any particular case.

  2. Where a charge of a kind referred to in section 191 is payable to a territorial authority, the territorial 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 191(1)(a) applies in relation to an independent hearings panel.

  4. A territorial 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 191.