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[^f00001] 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[^f00002] is amended, in paragraph (1), by the insertion after thewords“regulation 7(1)(a)” of the words“and (b)”.

Signed

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 41: section 13A is inserted by paragraph 5 ofSchedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

[^f00002]: S.I.1991/230; regulation 13(1) was amended byS.I.1991/844, regulation 2(10).