Council tax document.

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Cambridgeshire County Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Cambridgeshire county council 151 officer/data controller

We ask the 151 officer as they have a fiduciary obligation and a legal duty of care .

We ask if the coucil tax summons is ,

Written in plain english in line with the posting rule ,

We also ask where on the document conspicuos grammer/text is used and for what purpose.

We also ask under freedom of information what style guide/manual is used to create the council tax document , for the sake of ambiguity.

Yours faithfully,

Michael-john:

Yours faithfully,

michael john

FOI, Cambridgeshire County Council

Dear Sir

Re: Freedom of Information request ref 900463

Thank you for your request. In Cambridgeshire it is the City/District councils that are responsible for responding for the collection of council tax and would therefore issue summons about non-payment, rather than us at the County Council.

Therefore we do not hold the requested information.

The following webpage includes links to the websites of these councils in case you wish to send your request to them and have not already done so.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/data-p...

I hope this information is helpful but if you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review, you should write to Information Management, at either [Cambridgeshire County Council request email] or by post at Box No. OCT1224, Shire Hall, Cambridge CB3 0AP within 40 days of the date of this e-mail.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or via their website at https://ico.org.uk/.

Generally, the ICO will not undertake a review or make a decision on a request until the internal review process has been completed.

Yours sincerely

Information and Records
Cambridgeshire County Council

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Dear FOI,
We belive as SCDC are acting on your behalf then it is the county council i.e as a fidociary we belive the onus lie's with the county

Yours sincerely,

michael john

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Plain english !!!!!!

The posting rule (or mailbox rule in the United States, also known as the "postal rule" or "deposited acceptance rule") is an exception to the general rule of contract law in common law countries that acceptance of an offer takes place when communicated. Under the posting rule, that acceptance takes effect when a letter is posted (that is, dropped in a post box or handed to a postal worker).[1] In """plain English""", the "meeting of the minds" necessary to contract formation occurs at the exact moment word of acceptance is sent via post by the person accepting it, rather than when that acceptance is received by the person who offered the contract.

The rules of contracts by post (postal rules) include the following:

An offer made by post/letter is not effective until received by the offeree.
Acceptance is effective as soon as it is posted.
For revocation to be effective, it must be received by the offeree before they post their letter of acceptance.

One rationale given for the rule is that the offeror nominates the post office as his or her implied agent, and thus receipt of the acceptance by the post office is regarded as receipt by the offeror. The main effect of the posting rule is that the risk of acceptance being delivered late or lost in the post is placed upon the offeror. If the offeror is reluctant to accept this risk, he can always expressly require actual receipt as a condition before being legally bound by his offer.

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