The Council Tax (Discount Disregards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/3143
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 8th January 1997.

Section 2 The severely mentally impaired

(1) Article 3 (the severely mentally impaired) of the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992 is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for the words `paragraph (3) below' there is substituted `paragraph (3) or (4) below'.

(3) At the end there is added—

(4) The requirements of this paragraph are that—

(a) the person in question is a person whose partner is in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance, and

(b) by virtue of that person’s incapacity for work the applicable amount for the purposes of regulation 83 or 84 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 includes a premium which falls to be determined under paragraph (d) or (g) of paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations.