Section 144 | Interpretation: authorities.

(1)Each of the following is a charging authority—

(a)a district council,

(b)a London borough council,

(c)the Common Council, and

(d)the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(2)“Billing authority”, “precepting authority”, “major precepting authority” and “ local precepting authority” have the same meaning as in Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1992; but, in the case of references to a billing authority in Part 2 of Schedule 8, this is subject to paragraph 3A of that Schedule.^F1F2

(3)A waste disposal authority is an authority established at any time by an order under section 10(1) of the Local Government Act 1985.

(4)Repealed^F3

(5)A combined fire and rescue authority is a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies.^F4

(6)A billing authority is a special authority if its population on 1 April 1986 was less than 10,000, and its gross rateable value on that date divided by its population on that date was more than £10,000.^F5

(7)An authority’s population on 1 April 1986 is the Registrar General’s estimate of its population on that date as certified by him to the Secretary of State for the purposes of the enactments relating to rate support grant; and an authority’s gross rateable value on that date is the aggregate of the rateable values on that date of the hereditaments in its area.