- attachment of earnings order
means an order under regulation 32;
- charging order
means an order under regulation 44;
- debtor
means a person against whom a liability order has been made;
- demand notice
means the notice required to be served by regulation 14;
- earnings
has the meaning given in section 24 of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971, and sections 6(2) and 25(4) of that Act shall apply for the purposes of this Part accordingly;
- liability order
means an order under regulation 29;
- management arrangement
has the meaning given in section 17(3) of the Act;
- manager
means a person with whom, on any day in the chargeable period, the chargeable person has a management arrangement, and who on the day is neither the chargeable person’s employee nor (if an individual) aged under 18;
- public authority
means a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1972, the Common Council of the City of London, the Council of the Isles of Scilly and the Crown.
- relevant property
means a building, a part of a building, a caravan or a houseboat.
- spouse
means a person to whom, on any day in the chargeable period, the chargeable person is married and who is aged 18 or over on the day.
- the Act
means the Local Government Finance Act 1988.
- the adjustment day
means the day 14 days after the day the notice served under sub-paragraph (2) is issued;
- the aggregate amount
means the amount referred to in regulation 16(3).
- the appropriate amount
has the meaning given in paragraph (6);
- the appropriate registration officer
means the registration officer of the charging authority with respect to whose community charge the person– as the case may be.
- the chargeable amount
means the amount that the chargeable person is liable to pay in respect of the charge to which the demand notice mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) relates as it has effect for the relevant year;
- the chargeable period
has the meaning given in sections 16(2) and 17(2) of the Act (and accordingly regulation 13(3) does not apply to the determination of the period);
- the estimated amount
means the amount last estimated under regulation 16(3) for the purposes of that notice or any subsequent notice given under paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 1 prior to the failure mentioned in paragraph (2) above, save that if in any case an interim adjustment has been made under paragraph (5), it means in relation to the next payment, repayment or interim adjustment in that case under this regulation (if any) the appropriate amount by reference to which the previous interim adjustment was so made.
- the relevant day
means the day with respect to which the understanding or assumption mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a), (b), (e) or (f) is wrong, the day the amount set in substitution mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(c) is so set, the day the property falls into the class mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(d), or the day on which the liability to be met in the manner mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(g) first so falls to be met (as the case may be).