Rates and Charges (Rebates and Deferments) Act 1992

Where it appears to an administrative authority by which the entitlement of a person is registered that, consequent upon a contravention of this Act, the entitlement of that person has unlawfully continued to be registered when —

the person was not eligible to have the entitlement registered; or

the entitlement did not exist,

Where an administrative authority determines that a rebate or deferment was allowed, purportedly under this Act, on any prescribed charge to a person to whom it should not have been allowed —

the rebate purportedly allowed is of no effect; and

the amount paid shall be taken to have been paid in partial satisfaction of the prescribed charge; and

the amount, or the balance, of the rebate or of the amount deferred —

is payable to the relevant administrative authority on demand; and

is recoverable by the administrative authority in any court of competent jurisdiction;

that person is liable to any penalty in respect of arrears of that prescribed charge that may apply apart from this Act; and

if —

the amount of a rebate purportedly allowed has been reimbursed under section 17, the reimbursement shall be reversed; or

interest has been allowed under section 17 on deferral of a payment the interest shall be repaid,

Where a rebate was allowed by reference to an apportionment made on a basis different from the entitlement the person concerned in fact should have had, so that the rebate purportedly allowed was more than it should have been —

the rebate purportedly allowed shall be reduced to the correctly apportioned rebate; and

the amount paid shall be taken to have been paid in partial satisfaction of the prescribed charge; and

if the amount of the rebate mistakenly allowed has been reimbursed under section 17, the reimbursement shall be adjusted accordingly.