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The Personal Community Charge (Hospital Patients) Order 1991

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2011-07-04

COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES

By virtue of section 2 of, and paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 certain patients and detainees in national health service hospitals are treated as exempt individuals for the purposes of the personal community charge.