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Relevant event
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32. (1) Where a relevant event occurs or has occurred on an anniversary, the charged amount or reduced charged amount shall become due and payable to the designated local authority on the anniversary.
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(2) A relevant event occurs or has occurred where—
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(a) the relevant owner no longer owns the relevant dwelling, having disposed of the dwelling other than by testamentary disposition, or
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(b) subject to subsection (3), the relevant owner is no longer the landlord of a tenancy of the relevant dwelling which is registered on the residential tenancies register.
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(3) Subsection (2)(b) shall not apply where the relevant owner satisfies the designated local authority that on the anniversary—
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(a) he or she has made an application under section 134 of the Act of 2004 for registration of the tenancy but the registration has not yet taken place under section 135 of that Act,
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(b) he or she is undertaking repairs to the relevant dwelling for the purposes of making the relevant dwelling available to be let, or
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(c) he or she has made reasonable efforts to secure a tenancy of the relevant dwelling but has been unable to do so, and the relevant dwelling remains advertised and available to let under a tenancy registerable under section 134 of the Act of 2004.
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(4) A relevant owner may only rely on each exception referred to in a paragraph of subsection (3) on 2 occasions.
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