The Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 224 (S.17)

COMMUNITY CHARGES, SCOTLAND

SOCIAL SECURITY

WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND

The Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991

Made

7th February 1991

Laid before Parliament

15th February 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 20B(1) and (2)(c), 26(1) and 31(1) and (2) 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, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Regulations 1989(4).

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (supply of relevant information to registration officers) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3) The information is information as to the name, address and date of birth of any person aged 18 or over, and of any partner aged 18 or over of that person, where that person—

(a) is awarded income support but has not, at the time of the award, made a claim for community charge benefit at the appropriate social security office; or

(b) changes his address, while in receipt of income support.”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Ann Widdecombe

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

7th February 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 so as to permit the Secretary of State to provide relevant information to a community charges registration officer where either a person is awarded income support but does not at the time of the award claim community charge benefit, or a person changes his address while in receipt of income support.

(1)

1987 c. 47; section 20B was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 31; 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 Schedule 12, paragraph 38.

(3)

S.I. 1988/1538.

(4)

S.I. 1989/476.