Regulation 24 Amendment of regulation 83 of the General Regulations

Regulation 83 of the General Regulations (meaning of excess benefits) shall be amended by adding the following words at the end —

“and includes any excess which arises by reason of —

(a)

a reduction in the amount a person is liable to pay in respect of a personal community charge in consequence of regulations made under section 13A of the 1988 Act or section 9A of the 1987 Act; or

(b)

in England and Wales, a substitution under section 34 or, as the case may be, section 35 of the 1988 Act (power to set a substituted amount and duty to set a substituted amount) of a lower amount for the amount previously set by the appropriate authority for its personal community charge under section 32 of that Act (amount set for a personal community charge); or

(c)

in Scotland, a reduction in the appropriate authority’s personal community charge made under section 22 of the 1987 Act (reduction of community charges).”.