The Personal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 1991

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect inS.I. 1991/230 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipientsof that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 1061

COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Personal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) (Amendment)(No.3) Regulations 1991

Made

23rd April 1991

Laid before Parliament

24th April 1991

Coming into force

25th April 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on himby sections 13A, 140(4), 143(1) and (2) and 146(6) of, and paragraph 2of Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1) 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 Personal Community Charge(Reductions) (England) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1991 and shallcome into force on 25th April 1991.

Amendment of Regulations

2.  Regulation 13 (eligible persons and available reductions) of thePersonal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) Regulations 1991(2) is amended, in paragraph (1), by the insertion after thewords“regulation 7(1)(a)” of the words“and (b)”.

Michael Heseltine

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

23rd April 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations correct a defect in regulation 13(1) of thePersonal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) Regulations 1991 (“the principal Regulations”).

The effect of the amendment made by regulation 2 of these Regulations is to secure that a person’s eligibility for a reduction under Part III (rates reductions: two or more resident chargepayers) of the principal Regulations depends on the same criteria as are applied in the case of an individual under Part II (rates related reductions: one resident chargepayer) of those Regulations.

(1)

1988 c. 41: section 13A is inserted by paragraph 5 ofSchedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

(2)

S.I.1991/230; regulation 13(1) was amended byS.I.1991/844, regulation 2(10).