{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-54",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Alternative maximum council tax benefit",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the alternative maximum council tax benefit where the conditions set out in section 131(3) and (6) of the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 are fulfilled, shall be the amount determined in accordance with Schedule 2.\n2. Subject to paragraph (3), where a claimant is jointly and severally liable for council tax in respect of a dwelling in which he is resident with one or more other persons, in determining the alternative maximum council tax benefit in his case, the amount determined in accordance with Schedule 2 shall be divided by the number of persons who are jointly and severally liable for that tax.\n(3) Where a claimant is jointly and severally liable for council tax in respect of a dwelling with only his partner, solely by virtue of section 9 or 77 of the 1992 Act (liability of spouses), paragraph (2) shall not apply in his case.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 54 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2877",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Pensions, Social Security and Child Support) (Consequential, etc. Provisions) Order 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1605",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals and Discretionary Financial Assistance) (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2001 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2137",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2137",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1994"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:39.387743+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."
}