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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1539",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No.2) Regulations 1988",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations prescribe matters relating to the Community Charges Register (“the register”) which is to be maintained under the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (“the Act”).\nThe Regulations replace the Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”) which are revoked (regulation 21). In general, these Regulations re-enact the provisions of the 1988 Regulations but with amendments to take account of amendments made to the Act by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”). In certain cases, they also make new provision.\nThe Regulations re-enact, with amendments, the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe certain additional matters to be specified in the register and make provision as to the form of the register (regulations 3 and 4).\nThe Regulations re-enact, with amendments, the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe the date when the register comes into force (regulations). They require the registration officer, within a period of 2 months thereafter (rather than 42 days as in the 1988 Regulations), to send to every person registered in the register a copy of the entry relating to him, together with a notice in the form set out in Schedule 2 to the Regulations (regulation 6).\nThe Regulations re-enact, with amendments, the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe the period within which and the manner in which the registration officer is to notify any amendment which he makes to the register (regulation 8 and Schedule 3). They also prescribe the period within which the registration officer is required to determine the request to make or amend an entry in the register (regulation 10).\nThe Regulations re-enact, with amendments, the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe the period within which and the manner in which appeals are to be made against any entry in, or any amendment to, the register or against any designation of a person as the responsible person, and the period and manner of determining such appeals (regulation 9).\nThe Regulations re-enact, with amendments, the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe various matters in relation to obtaining information for the register. They prescribe the information which a local authority, housing body, or other registration officer is not to be required to supply to the registration officer (regulation 11). They prescribe the times at which and the manner in which the registration officer is to require any responsible person to give him information (regulation 12). They also prescribe an inquiry from and supplementary inquiry form to be used for this purpose (Schedules 4 and 5) and the period within which any person is required to supply the registration officer with information which he requires (regulation 13).\nThe Regulations re-enact the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe the rate of interest on outstanding community charges for any backdated period (regulation 14).\nThe Regulations prescribe various matters in relation to the inspection of the register. They make new provision by prescribing 1st April 1989 as the date when members of the public are entitled to inspect the public part of the register (regulation 15(1)). They re-enact the provisions of the 1988 Regulations which prescribe the class of premises whose collective community charge multiplier is not to be available for public inspection in the register (regulation 15(2)). They make new provision as to the persons entitled to inspect the register (regulation 16). They also make new provision regarding the making and inspection of extracts of the public parts of the register (regulation 17). They also prescribe the modifications to be made in applying the provisions about inspection of the register to inspection of the record made of entries to the register before amendment (regulation 7).\nThe Regulations also prescribe for the first time the class of persons who can apply to have their entry determined to be a special entry which is excluded from the public part of the register and make provision as to such applications and applications against the revocation of such determinations (regulation 18).\nThe Regulations re-enact the provisions of the 1988 Regulations prescribing the fees payable for a copy or certified copy of entries in the register and when the Keeper of the Records of Scotland can make a copy of the register available for inspection or issue extracts or certified copies of such a register (regulations 19 and 20).",
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