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Natural Environment Bill

Key roles - Functions, powers, and responsibilities of regional councils - Administrative charges

230: Other matters relating to administrative charges

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"When you don't have to pay some council fees"

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You can have a charge waived by a local authority. They can choose to waive the whole or part of the charge. This is for charges mentioned in section 229. You must pay a charge before a local 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 local 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 229.

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Part 5Key roles
Functions, powers, and responsibilities of regional councils: Administrative charges

230Other matters relating to administrative charges

  1. A local authority may waive the whole or any part of any charge of a kind referred to in section 229 that would be payable in any particular case.

  2. Where a charge of a kind referred to in section 229 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 229(1)(a) applies in relation to an independent hearings panel.

  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 229.