{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-no-2-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-no-2-regulations-1990/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/545",
  "legislation_title": "Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) (No. 2) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-no-2-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Circumstances, time of making and termination of deductions",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State–\n(a) shall make deductions under regulation 3(1) or (2) only where the debtor is entitled to income support, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance throughout any benefit week; and\n(b) shall not determine any application under regulation 2 which relates to a debtor in respect of whom–\n(i) he is making deductions; or\n(ii) deductions fall to be made,\npursuant to an earlier application under regulation 3 until no deductions pursuant to that earlier application fall to be made.\n(1A) The Secretary of State may make deductions from universal credit under regulation 3(1A) only if—\n(a) the debtor is entitled to universal credit throughout any assessment period; and\n(b) no deductions are being made in respect of the debtor under any other application.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall make deductions from income support, universal credit, state pension credit , jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance at a time which corresponds to the payment of income support, universal credit, state pension credit to the debtor and he shall cease making deductions when–\n(a) a payment to a third party has priority;\n(b) there is insufficient entitlement to income support, universal credit, state pension credit , jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance to enable him to make the deduction;\n(c) entitlement to income support, universal credit, state pension credit , jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance ceases;\n(d) an authority withdraws its application for deductions to be made; or\n(e) the debt in respect of which he was making the deductions is discharged.\n(3) Payments shall be made to the authority at such intervals as the Secretary of State may decide.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1) substituted (29.11.1999) by S.I. 1999/3178, reg. 1, Sch. 11 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(a) substituted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 17(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 inserted (6.10.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(b), 35(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4 substituted (27.10.2008) by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No.2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 53(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1A) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 17(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) inserted (29.4.2013) by The Fines, Council Tax and Community Charges (Deductions from Universal Credit and Other Benefits) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/612), regs. 1(2), 17(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See Schedule 7 to S.I. 1987/1968."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/545/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:24:40.784150+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."
}