# The Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989, Regulation 4: Persons of prescribed description

Extent: E+W+S

(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”.
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1321/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-4
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