In section 22, local authorities are being given explicit power to discontinue the collection of domestic waste in the event of non-payment of charges. This addresses the consequences of a 2001 Supreme Court judgment, which found that local authorities currently do not have this right. As a result, they could only seek recovery of unpaid household charges as a normal contract debt through the appropriate courts, a system that is costly and unwieldy. I now propose to allow local authorities to respond in the most direct manner to those who will not pay for services provided and who expect their neighbours to subsidise them for the collection of their waste.