{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-regulations-1990/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-regulations-1990/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/107",
  "legislation_title": "Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Circumstances, time of making and termination of deductions",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall make deductions from income support only —\n(a) where the debtor is entitled to income support throughout any benefit week; and\n(b) in respect of one application (the original application) at a time, and where, at the time he is making deductions under the original application, the Secretary of State receives one or more applications under regulation 2(1), he shall not refer them to the adjudication officer until he has ceased making deductions under the original application when he shall forthwith refer the applications to the adjudication officer in the chronological order in which they were made.\n(2) The Secretary of State shall make deductions from income support at a time which corresponds to the payment of income support 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 to enable him to make the deduction;\n(c) entitlement to income support ceases;\n(d) an authority withdraws its application for deductions to be made; or\n(e) the debt 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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Schedule 7 to S.I. 1987/1968."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/107/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:29:14.897038+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."
}