# The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989 to take account of the reduction of the amount of a charging or levying authority’s personal community charge in consequence of the Community Charges (General Reduction) Act 1991 (the 1991 Act);
they revoke the provision prescribing the minimum amount of a community charge benefit (regulation 2);
they specify the circumstances in which claims for benefit made after 1st April 1991 are to be treated as having been made earlier on a date on or after 1st April 1991 (regulation 3);
they require that where a personal community charge is reduced in consequence of the 1991 Act awards of benefit in respect of that charge shall be reviewed but that notices in respect of such a reduction need not be given (regulations 4 to 7);
they provide that benefits awarded in excess of a person’s entitlement following a reduction of a personal community charge in consequence of the 1991 Act shall be recoverable (regulations 8 and 9).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/849/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1991/note
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