# The Community Water Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1538) (“the principal Regulations”).
The principal Regulations prescribe adaptations, exceptions and modifications to which certain provisions of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 47) (“the Act”) are subject, insofar as they have effect, by virtue of paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Act, in relation to the community water charges.
Regulation 3(2) of these Regulations provides that section 9A of the Act, which was inserted by section 143 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) (“the 1989 Act”) and which provides for a reduction in liability for the personal community charge, shall not apply in relation to the personal community water charge.
Regulation 3(3) of these Regulations continues the previous effect of the principal Regulations in providing that there should not be any standard community water charge multipliers. This regulation is necessary because of the amendments made to section 10 of the Act by section 142 of the 1989 Act which were brought into force on 1st December 1989 by the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/2180) but only for the purposes of and in relation to the financial year 1990-91 and any subsequent financial year. The amendment made by regulation 3(3) is similarly restricted by regulation 4.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2362/note (the official version)
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