The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1989

Statutory Instruments

1989 No. 1476 (S.117)

COMMUNITY CHARGES, SCOTLAND

WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND

The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1989

Made

9th August 1989

Laid before Parliament

14th August 1989

Coming into force

4th September 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 11(2), 26(1) and 31(3) 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:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 4th September 1989.

Revocation

2.  Regulation 4 of the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988((4)) is hereby revoked.

Michael B. Forsyth

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

9th August 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke regulation 4 of the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988 ( “the 1988 Regulations”).

Regulation 4 of the 1988 Regulations prescribes as a class of premises in respect of which the collective community charge and collective community water charge are payable premises (“women’s refuges”) managed by a voluntary organisation for the temporary accommodation of persons who have left their homes as a result of physical violence or mental cruelty or threats of such violence or cruelty from persons to whom they are married or with whom they are, or were, co-habiting.

These Regulations are consequential upon the Abolition of Domestic Rates (Domestic and Part Residential Subjects) (No.2) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/1477) which make women’s refuges liable to rates.

(1)

1987 c. 47; section 26(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

(2)

Paragraph 11 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 38.

(3)

S.I. 1988/1538.

(4)

S.I. 1988/631, amended by S.I. 1988/1540 and 1989/1004.