Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 230

The Personal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) Regulations 1991

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1991 No. 230

COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Personal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) Regulations 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13A, 140(4), 143(1) and (2) and 146(6) of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Community Charge (Reductions) (England) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 15th February 1991.

    (2)  These Regulations extend only to England.

Interpretation, etc.
    2.    —(1)  In these Regulations, except insofar as the context otherwise requires—

"the Act" means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;


"scheme charge" and "assumed rate poundage" mean respectively, in relation to any charging authority, the scheme charge and the assumed rate poundage specified in relation to that authority in a report made in accordance with regulation 4(1);


"chargeable year" means a financial year prescribed by regulation 3;


"the original Regulations" means the Personal Community Charge (Relief) (England) Regulations 1990^[2];


"relevant day" means the day on which these Regulations come into force;


"set charge" means the amount set by the relevant authority for its personal community charge for its area for the relevant year under Part II of the Act or any substitute amount so set or, where the authority has set different amounts for different areas, the amount applicable in the case of the chargepayer concerned, apart from these Regulations;


references to a hereditament which is or includes a residence include a reference to a hereditament which is a mooring for a boat on which a person resides or land on which a residential caravan is stationed;

and for the purposes of these Regulations, two or more residences are related residences if on 31st March 1990 they formed part of the same hereditament.    (2)  The Schedule hereto has effect to define "rateable value".

    (3)  These Regulations apply whether the liability of a person to pay an amount to an authority in respect of a personal community charge arises under section 12 of the Act or that section read with section 13.

    (4)  Where at a time when a charging authority proposes to issue a demand for an amount estimated or calculated as mentioned in regulation 16(3) of the Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989^[3] a rateable value which is by virtue of Part II, III or V hereof relevant to that estimate or calculation cannot be finally determined, the charging authority may make the estimate or calculation by reference to its estimate of that value.

    (5)  Where on 31st March 1990 premises which constitute the sole or main residence of a person were situated in the area of more than one charging authority and so formed two or more hereditaments, references in these Regulations to the hereditament which comprised or included the sole or main residence of that person are references to those hereditaments; and, accordingly, for the purposes of Parts II, III and V hereof the product of the calculation RV x ARP shall, in such a case, be the aggregate of the amounts produced by multiplying the rateable value of each of the hereditaments by the assumed rate poundage for the charging authority in whose area it lay.

Prescribed years
    3.    The chargeable financial years beginning 1st April 1991 and 1st April 1992 are prescribed as the years for which these Regulations apply.

Report by the Secretary of State
    4.—(1)  The Secretary of State shall before 28th February 1991 specify for each charging authority in a report a scheme charge and an assumed rate poundage for the purposes of these Regulations.

    (2)  The report mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be laid before the House of Commons.

Continued effect of the original Regulations, etc.
    5.—(1)  The original Regulations and regulation 2 of the Personal Community Charge (Relief) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 1990^[4] shall have effect only in relation to personal community charges for the chargeable financial year beginning 1st April 1990.

    (2)  In relation to a chargeable year, paragraph 7(1)(h) of Schedule I to the Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1989^[5] shall have effect as if for the reference to the original Regulations there were substituted a reference to these Regulations.

Eligibility under more than one Part
    6.    Where a person is an eligible person for the purposes of more than one Part of these Regulations, he shall only be entitled to a reduction under whichever of those Parts results in the greatest reduction in the amount of the personal community charge he would pay apart from these Regulations.

[1] 1988 c. 41: section 13A is inserted by paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42). back

[2] S.I. 1990/2, amended by S.I. 1990/402. back

[3] S.I. 1989/438; regulation 16 was amended by S.I. 1989/22741990/711 and 1991/140. back

[4] S.I. 1990/402. back

[5] Paragraph 7(1)(h) was added by S.I. 1990/402, regulation 3. back

Explanatory Note