Local Government (Financial Provisions) (No. 2) Act, 1983
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Local authorities enabled to make certain charges. |
2.—(1) Subject to section 4 of this Act, any existing enactment which requires or enables a local authority to provide a service but which, apart from this subsection, does not empower the authority to charge for the provision of the service shall be deemed so to empower that authority. | |
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall have effect as regards an enactment notwithstanding the inclusion in the enactment of a provision which either precludes a local authority from charging for the provision of a service or requires that a service be provided by such an authority free of charge. | ||
(3) Subject to section 4 of this Act, notwithstanding any provision in any existing enactment whereby there is specified— | ||
(a) the amount of the charge which may be made by a local authority in respect of a service which the authority is required or enabled to provide, or | ||
(b) an amount which a charge described in paragraph (a) of this subsection is not to exceed, | ||
the local authority may make a charge which exceeds the amount so specified, and any charge made by virtue of this subsection shall for all purposes be deemed to have been duly made under the enactment. |