The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 835

COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) (Amendment)Regulations 1991

Made

26th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

27th March 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powersconferred on him by sections 13A, 140(4) and 143(1) of the LocalGovernment Finance Act 1988(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf,hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Community Charge(Relief) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1991, and shall come into forceon 1st April 1991.

2.  The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) Regulations 1991(2) (“the principal Regulations”) shall have effect with the amendments prescribed in theseRegulations.

3.  Paragraph (2) of Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is herebyamended by—

(a) inserting“(a)” after“less”, and

(b) adding at the end a comma and the words“or (b) if less, such sum as is equal to its set charge.”

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

26th March 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 3 of these Regulations makes a minor amendment to thePersonal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) Regulations 1991 (S.I.1991/212). In cases where the relief prescribed under those regulationswould otherwise produce a negative amount when deducted from a chargingauthority’s set charge, the amendment prescribes that the relief will beof an amount equal to the set charge, thus producing a result of zerofor the figure on which liability is calculated.

(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. 1991/212.