In these Regulations: “the Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;

• “the principal community charge regulations” means the Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 19893;

• “the principal rating regulations” means the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Local Lists) Regulations 19894;

• “chargeable person” means a person entered on a charging authority’s community charges register as subject in the relevant year to a community charge of that authority; and in relation to a community charge demand notice, means the person upon whom that notice is, or is to be, served;

• “charging authority” means a Welsh charging authority;

• “community charge demand notice” means a demand notice within the meaning of Part III of the principal community charge regulations which is given by a charging authority (including such a notice given pursuant to the Community Charges (Co-owners) Regulations 1990)5;

• “personal community charge demand notice” means a community charge demand notice requiring the payment of an amount in respect of a charging authority’s personal community charge as it has effect for the relevant year;

• “rate demand notice” means a demand notice within the meaning of Part II of the principal rating regulations which is given by a charging authority (including such a notice given pursuant to Part II of the Non-Domestic Rating (Collection and Enforcement) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 19906 (joint owners and occupiers));

• “relevant county council”, in relation to a charging authority, means the county council which has power to issue a precept to that charging authority;

• “the relevant year” in relation to a community charge demand notice or a rate demand notice, means the chargeable financial year to which the demand for payment made by it relates;

• “specific grants” means grants or subsidies which fall to be credited to revenue account and which are paid out of monies provided by Parliament, other than–

  1. a

     revenue support grant paid under section 78 of the Act,

  2. b

     additional grant paid under section 85 of the Act, and

  3. c

     sums which the Secretary of State specifies are to be paid into a charging authority’s collection fund under section 90(3) of the Act;

• “standard community charge demand notice” means a community charge demand notice requiring the payment of an amount in respect of a charging authority’s standard community charge as it has effect for the relevant year.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered form is a reference to the form bearing that number, prescribed in Schedule 1.

Part III of Schedule 2 (Interpretation) shall have effect for the purposes of Schedule 2, and Part III of Schedule 6 (Interpretation) shall have effect for the purposes of Schedule 6.