{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1321",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons of prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 20(11) of the Act (definition of family) as it applies to community charge benefits is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of child), and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is on income support or to a person who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 12(2) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (relevant education).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) added (1.4.1990) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/834), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.4.1990, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 61. as amended by sections 4, 8 and 21 and Schedule 5 Part I of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 70 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) and by section 4(3) of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1321/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:44.176575+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}