{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-registration-scotland-no2-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-registration-scotland-no2-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1539",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No.2) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charges-registration-scotland-no2-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations —\n“the Act” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987;\n“the 1988 Act” means the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n“the 1988 Regulations” means the Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 1988;\n“the Water Regulations” means the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988;\n“person undertaking a full-time course of education” shall have the meaning for the time being prescribed under section 8(6) of the Act;\n“responsible person” has the same meaning as in section 17 of the Act;\n“voluntary organisation” means a body the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit;\nand any reference to a section of the Act includes a reference to that section as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Act and the Water Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 41"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/157"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1538"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 8(6) was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 12, paragraph 18(5); Regulations which are currently made under this section are the Personal Community Charge (Students) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/632)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 17 was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 12, paragraph 26; and Schedule 13, Part IV (repeals)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 was amended by the 1988 Act, Schedule 12, paragraph 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/51",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/51",
      "affecting_title": "The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1539/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:59:48.252761+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."
}