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Local Government Act 1974

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36 Recovery by local authorities of establishment charges.

(1) In any case where a local authority— (a) are empowered under any enactment to carry out any works or do any other thing on or in relation to any land or building, and (b) by virtue of that or any other enactment are entitled to recover from any person expenses incurred by them in exercising that power, the local authority shall be entitled to recover, together with and in like manner as the expenses which are recoverable as mentioned in paragraph (b) above, such sum as appears to them to be reasonable in respect of their establishment charges. (2) The provisions of subsection (1) above shall have effect in substitution for any provision contained in any enactment, including an enactment in a local Act, under which a local authority who have exercised any such power as is referred to in subsection (1)(a) above have power to recover any sum in respect of their establishment charges or any element or elements of those charges. (3) In this section “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 35 above.

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36 Recovery by local authorities of establishment charges.

(1) In any case where a local authority— (a) are empowered under any enactment to carry out any works or do any other thing on or in relation to any land or building, and (b) by virtue of that or any other enactment are entitled to recover from any person expenses incurred by them in exercising that power, the local authority shall be entitled to recover, together with and in like manner as the expenses which are recoverable as mentioned in paragraph (b) above, such sum as appears to them to be reasonable in respect of their establishment charges. (2) The provisions of subsection (1) above shall have effect in substitution for any provision contained in any enactment, including an enactment in a local Act, under which a local authority who have exercised any such power as is referred to in subsection (1)(a) above have power to recover any sum in respect of their establishment charges or any element or elements of those charges. (3) In this section “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 35 above.

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