The Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 540

COUNCIL TAX, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made

2nd March 1994

Laid before Parliament

10th March 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 116(1) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1992(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

Care Workers

2.  The Schedule to the Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) Regulations 1992(2) shall be amended, in paragraph 3, by the substitution for sub-paragraph (a)(iiii) of the following paragraph—

“(iii) an increase in the rate of his disablement pension under section 104 of that Act by an amount which is the highest amount determined in accordance with paragraph (a) of regulation 19 of the Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982 or, in a case to which paragraph (b) of that regulation applies, the amount determined in accordance with that paragraph; or”(3).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

David Curry

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

23rd February 1994

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

2nd March 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends paragraph 3 of the Schedule to the Council Tax (Additional Provisions for Discount Disregards) Regulations 1992, which prescribe additional provisions in relation to certain classes of persons to be disregarded for the purposes of discount. The existing requirement in relation to care workers is amended so that a person to whom care is provided, and who is in receipt of a disablement pension, must be in need of constant attendance. This makes the requirement relating to disablement pension consistent with the requirements relating to attendance allowance, the care component of disability living allowance and constant attendance allowance.

(1)

1992 c. 14.

(2)

S.I. 1992/552. There are amendments which are not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

The Social Security (General Benefits) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/1408), to which there are amendments which are not relevant to these Regulations.