Committee of Inquiry Parish Rates report 1984 (FOI)

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Authored by Government of Jersey on behalf of the States Greffe and published on 16 February 2024.
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​​Request

P{lease provide a copy of the report of a Committee of Inquiry (chaired by Senator Reg Jeune OBE) into, amongst other things, whether parish rates should be paid by the public on public buildings. Probable date 1984. It is referred to in the Report on the Working Part on The Relationship between the States and the Parishes (June 1997), page 21.

Response

The requested document is available at the Jersey Archive and can be accessed at the following link –

Parish Rates: report of the Committee of Inquiry (jerseyheritage.org)​

Article applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.

This response has been issued on behalf of the States Greffe. The States Greffe is responsible for the information held by (and on behalf of) both itself and the States Assembly.  Neither the States Assembly nor the States Greffe form part of the Government of Jersey and the Government was not involved either in the examination and retrieval of any information required for this response, nor in the drafting of the response itself.​