The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/1540
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988( ).

Section 3 Amendment of principal Regulations

Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) after the definition of “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definitions:—

“hospital” has the same meaning as in paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 1A to the Act( );

(b) for the words “to the Act” at the end of that regulation, there shall be substituted the words “to the Act and the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988”

Section 4 Amendment of principal Regulations

Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (standard community charge-prescribed excepted classes of premises) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) at the end of paragraph (c) the word “and” shall be deleted;

(b) in paragraph (d) for the word “reconstructed.” there shall be substituted the words “reconstructed; and” ;

(c) after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

(e) a dwellinghouse in respect of any time during which any person who would, but for this provision, be liable to pay the standard community charge in respect thereof (including any person who may be jointly and severally liable for that charge) falls within the following description, that is to say:—

(i) he is solely or mainly resident in premises which are a hospital, residential care home, nursing home, private hospital or hostel;

(ii) he is exempt from liability to pay the personal community charge by virtue of paragraph 8 or 9 of Schedule 1A to the Act (exemption from liability of certain persons solely or mainly resident in such premises); and (iii) immediately before becoming solely or mainly resident in such premises, he was solely or mainly resident in the dwellinghouse.