Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 2

3.—(1) Regulation 2 of the principal regulations (deductions from income support) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1) after the words “Secretary of State” there shall be inserted the words “by sending an application in respect of each debtor or where a summary warrant or decree is granted against a couple in respect of both of them to an appropriate social security office”.

(3) In paragraph (2)–

(a) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph–

“(a) the name and address of the debtor or where the summary warrant or decree is granted against a couple, the names and address of both of them;”; and

(b) in paragraph (e) for the words “the amount” there shall be substituted the words “the total amount”.

(4) In paragraph (4)–

(a) in sub-paragraph (a)(i)–

(i) for the words “in the case” there shall be substituted the words “where a summary warrant or decree is made in respect”; and

(ii) after the words “who is a member of a couple” there shall be inserted the words “or a member of a polygamous marriage”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (a)(ii)–

(i) the words “in a case” shall be omitted, and

(ii) for the word “names” there shall be substituted the words “is granted against”; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (b)(iii) after the words “mentioned in paragraph 6” there shall be inserted the words “(fuel costs)”.