Article 2 The severely mentally impaired

Article 3 (the severely mentally impaired) of the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992^f1 is amended as follows.

In paragraph (1), for the words `paragraph (3) below' there is substituted `paragraph (3) or (4) below'.

At the end there is added—

“(4)

The requirements of this paragraph are that—

(a)

the person in question is a person whose partner is in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance, and

(b)

by virtue of that person’s incapacity for work the applicable amount for the purposes of regulation 83 or 84 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996^f2 includes a premium which falls to be determined under paragraph (d) or (g) of paragraph 14(1) of Schedule 1 to those Regulations.”.