Section 6 — Local Government Finance Act 1988: Community charges register.

Community charges register. 6 1 The registration officer for a charging authority shall compile, and then maintain, a community charges register for the authority in accordance with this Part.

2 A charging authority’s register must be compiled on or before 1 December 1989.

3 A charging authority’s register shall contain an item in relation to each community charge of the authority to which a person becomes subject on or after 1 December 1989.

4 The item shall state—

a whether the charge is a personal, a standard or a collective community charge, b the person’s name, c the day of his becoming subject to the charge and (if applicable) the day of his ceasing to be subject to it, and d which (if any) of the days on which he is shown in the register as subject to the charge is a day on which he is undertaking a full-time course of education.

5 The item shall also state—

a in the case of a personal community charge, the address of the residence by virtue of which the person is subject to the charge, b in the case of a standard community charge, the address of the property by virtue of which the person is subject to the charge and (if different) his residential address for the time being, and c in the case of a collective community charge, the address of the dwelling by virtue of which the person is subject to the charge and (if different) his residential address for the time being.

6 The item shall also state, in the case of a standard community charge, the class (if any) which is for the time being specified under section 40 below and into which the property concerned falls.

7 Where a person is subject to a personal community charge, and the place of residence giving rise to the charge has no address, under subsection (5)(a) above the item shall state that place.

8 A registration officer’s duty to compile and maintain a register in accordance with this Part includes the duty to take reasonable steps to obtain information for that purpose under the powers conferred on him.