The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012

PART 2 E+W Prescribed classes of persons

Pensioners E+W

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the classes of pensioners described in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 are classes of person prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(9)(b) of Schedule 1A to the 1992 Act(1) and which must be included in an authority’s scheme.

(2) Pensioners whose capital exceeds £16,000 are a class of person prescribed for the purposes of that paragraph and which must not be included in an authority’s scheme.

(3) Capital for the purposes of paragraph (2) is to be calculated in accordance with Part 6 of Schedule 1.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 11 in force at 27.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)

Persons treated as not being in Great Britain E+W

12.—(1) Persons treated as not being in Great Britain are a class of person prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(9)(b) of Schedule 1A to the 1992 Act and which must not be included in an authority’s scheme.

(2) Except where a person falls within paragraph (5) or (6), a person is to be treated as not being in Great Britain if the person is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland.

(3) A person must not be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland unless the person has a right to reside in one of those places.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a right to reside does not include a right which exists by virtue of, or in accordance with—

(a) regulation 13 of the EEA Regulations(2) or Article 6 of Council Directive 2004/38/EC(3);

[F1 (aa) regulation 14 of the EEA Regulations, but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the person is—

(i) a jobseeker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of those Regulations,

(ii) a family member (within the meaning of regulation 7 of those Regulations) of such a jobseeker;

(ab) Article 45 of the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union (in a case where the person is seeking work in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland);] or

(b) regulation 15A(1) of the EEA Regulations(4), but only in a case where the right exists under that regulation because the applicant satisfies the criteria in paragraph (4A) of that regulation or Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (in a case where the right to reside arises because a British citizen would otherwise be deprived of the genuine enjoyment of their rights as a European Union citizen)(5).

(5) A person falls within this paragraph if the person is—

(a) a qualified person for the purposes of regulation 6 of the EEA Regulations(6) as a worker or a self-employed person;

(b) a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) within the meaning of regulation 7(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the EEA Regulations;

(c) a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of regulation 15(1)(c), (d) or (e) of the EEA Regulations;

(d) a person recorded by the Secretary of State as a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951, as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967;

[F2 (e) a person who has been granted, or who is deemed to have been granted, leave outside the rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 where that leave is—

(i) discretionary leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom,

(ii) leave to remain under the Destitution Domestic Violence concession which came into effect on 1st April 2012, or

(iii) leave deemed to have been granted by virtue of regulation 3 of the Displaced Persons (Temporary Protection) Regulations 2005;]

(f) a person who has humanitarian protection granted under those rules; F3 ...

(g) a person who is not a person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(7) and who is in the United Kingdom as a result of his deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to the United Kingdom;

[F4 (h) in receipt of income support F5 ... or on an income-related employment and support allowance; F6 ...

[F7 (ha) in receipt of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance and has a right to reside other than a right to reside falling within paragraph (4); or]

(i) a person who is treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of the EEA Regulations pursuant to regulation 5 of the Accession of Croatia (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2013 (right of residence of a Croatian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”)].

(6) A person falls within this paragraph if the person is a Crown servant or member of Her Majesty’s forces posted overseas.

(7) A person mentioned in sub-paragraph (6) is posted overseas if the person is performing overseas the duties of a Crown servant or member of Her Majesty’s forces and was, immediately before the posting or the first of consecutive postings, habitually resident in the United Kingdom.

(8) In this regulation—

“claim for asylum” has the same meaning as in section 94(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999(8);

“Crown servant” means a person holding an office or employment under the Crown;

“EEA Regulations” means the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006; and

“Her Majesty’s forces” has the same meaning as in the Armed Forces Act 2006(9).

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 12(4)(aa)(ab) inserted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)

F2 Reg. 12(5)(e) substituted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)(i)

F3 Word in reg. 12(5) omitted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)(ii)

F4 Reg. 12(5)(h)(i) inserted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(b)(iii)

F5 Words in reg. 12(5)(h) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3312), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a) (with reg. 3)

F6 Word in reg. 12(5) omitted (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3312), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(b) (with reg. 3)

F7 Reg. 12(5)(ha) added (with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3312), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(c) (with reg. 3)

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 12 in force at 27.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)

Persons subject to immigration control E+W

13.—(1)  [F8 Subject to paragraph (1A),] persons subject to immigration control are a class of person prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 2(9)(b) of Schedule 1A to the 1992 Act and which must not be included in an authority’s scheme.

[F9 (1A) A person who is a national of a state which has ratified the European Convention on Social and Medical Assistance (done in Paris on 11th December 1953) or a state which has ratified the Council of Europe Social Charter (signed in Turin on 18th October 1961) and who is lawfully present in the United Kingdom is not a person subject to immigration control for the purpose of paragraph (1).]

(2) “Person subject to immigration control” has the same meaning as in section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.

Textual Amendments

F8 Words in reg. 13(1) inserted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(a)

F9 Reg. 13(1A) inserted (13.1.2014 with application in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/3181), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(b)

Commencement Information

I3 Reg. 13 in force at 27.11.2012, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

Schedule 1A was inserted by section 9 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. ).

(2)

S.I. 2006/1003; regulation 13 was amended by regulation 3 of, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2012/1547.

(3)

OJ No L 158, 30.4.04, p 77.

(4)

Regulation 15A was inserted by regulation 3 of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2012/1547; paragraph (4A) was inserted by regulation 2 of, and paragraph 3 of the Schedule to, S.I. 2012/2560.

(5)

A consolidated version of this Treaty was published in the Official Journal on 30.3.2010 C 83.

(6)

Regulation 6(2) was amended by regulation 5 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to, S.I. 2011/544.

(7)

1999 c. 33.

(8)

Relevant amendments to section 94(1) have been made by section 44 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41) but those provisions are not in force. Other amendments have been made but they are not relevant to these Regulations.

(9)

2006 c. 52.