Statutory Instruments
COMMUNITY CHARGES, SCOTLAND
SOCIAL SECURITY
WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND
Made
7th February 1991
Laid before Parliament
15th February 1991
Coming into force
1st April 1991
The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20B(1) and (2)(c), 26(1) and 31(1) and (2) of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc (Scotland) Act 1987(1) and those sections as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to that Act(2) and with the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988(3) made thereunder and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Regulations 1989(4).
2. In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (supply of relevant information to registration officers) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(3) The information is information as to the name, address and date of birth of any person aged 18 or over, and of any partner aged 18 or over of that person, where that person—
(a)is awarded income support but has not, at the time of the award, made a claim for community charge benefit at the appropriate social security office; or
(b)changes his address, while in receipt of income support.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Ann Widdecombe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
7th February 1991
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 so as to permit the Secretary of State to provide relevant information to a community charges registration officer where either a person is awarded income support but does not at the time of the award claim community charge benefit, or a person changes his address while in receipt of income support.
1987 c. 47; section 20B was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 31; section 26(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.
Paragraph 11 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 Schedule 12, paragraph 38.
S.I. 1988/1538.
S.I. 1989/476.