{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-83.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/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Meaning of excess benefits",
  "text": "In this Part “excess benefits” means any amount which has been allowed by way of community charge benefits and to which there was no entitlement under these Regulations (whether on initial determination or as subsequently revised on review or further review) and includes any excess which arises by reason of—\n(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\n(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\n(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) or\n(d) a reduction in the amount of the appropriate authority’s personal community charge in consequence of the Community Charges (General Reduction) Act 1991.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 83 added (1.4.1990) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/834), regs. 1(1), 24"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 83(d) and word added (1.4.1991) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/849), regs. 1(1), 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 83 in force at 1.4.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1321/regulation/83",
    "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."
}