220.This section builds on the provisions in section 68 of the 1992 Act. It defines the process for local authorities’ determining and issuing of permits to collect in a public place. Subsection (1) provides for the local authority within a prescribed period to issue a permit, or refuse to issue a permit on the grounds of capacity set out in section 60. Subsection (2) provides for the date(s) of collection(s). Subsection (3) enables local authorities to attach conditions to a permit. The types of conditions that local authorities can apply are limited to those within paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (3). Subsection (4) provides that any condition attached to a permit must be consistent with regulations made under section 63. Subsections (5) and (6) require a local authority, where it has decided to refuse or to attach any condition to a permit, to give notice of its decision to the applicant; and the notice must state that the applicant has the right of appeal to the magistrates’ court conferred by section 62.
The Act Commentary on Sections Section 59: Determination of applications and issue of permits