When is the deadline for dpa 2018 urgent assessment notice: minimum 7 days?
The catalogue records a 7 days period from The giving of the assessment notice containing the urgency statement and reasons. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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Calculation basis and source
- Period
- 7 days
- Trigger
- The giving of the assessment notice containing the urgency statement and reasons
- Counting
- The encoded calculator method must be independently documented before publication.
- Rollovers and holidays
- Holiday, closure and order treatment must be independently documented before publication.
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- There is a further gear: where the s.146(9) conditions are all met - reasonable grounds for suspecting a s.149(2) failure or an offence, the nature of the suspicion indicated, non-domestic premises specified, an opinion that compliance is needed in less than 7 days, and reasons given - subsections (6) and (7) simply do not apply and there is NO minimum period at all. In that case the notice can require immediate compliance. The recipient's remedy is a s.164 application to the court.
- The default position under s.146(6) is the ordinary one: "An assessment notice may not require a person to do anything before the end of the period within which an appeal can be brought against the notice", i.e. 28 days. So there are three tiers to model: 28 days, 7 days, and no minimum. CURRENCY: DUAA 2025 added new s.146(2)(j) and (k) and s.146(3A) from 5 February 2026, allow