# Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) (Scotland) Regulations 1989, Regulation 2: Application for deductions from income support, universal credit, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance


(1) Without prejudice to their right to pursue any other means of recovering arrears of community charges, a levying authority may apply to the Secretary of State by sending an application in respect of each debtor or where a summary warrant or decree is granted against a couple in respect of both of them to an appropriate social security office asking him to deduct sums from any amount payable to a debtor by way of income support, universal credit, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance.
(2) An application from a levying authority shall be in writing and shall contain the following particulars–
(a) the name and address of the debtor or where the summary warrant or decree is granted against a couple, the names and address of both of them;
(b) the name and place of the court at which the summary warrant or decree was obtained;
(c) the date when the summary warrant or decree was obtained;
(d) the total amount of the arrears specified in the summary warrant or decree;
(e) the total amount which the levying authority wishes to have deducted from income support, universal credit, state pension credit, jobseeker’s allowance or employment and support allowance.
(3) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that an application from a levying authority gives insufficient particulars to enable the debtor to be identified he may require the levying authority to furnish such further particulars as may reasonably be required.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/507/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-deductions-from-income-support-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-2
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