The Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1989

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987;

“exempt” means exempt from liability to pay the personal community charge and the personal community water charge under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1A to the Act;

“the old definition of severely mentally impaired” means the definition in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations;

“the new definition of severely mentally impaired” means the definition which is substituted for the old definition of that expression by regulation 4 of these Regulations.