{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discounts-scotland-order-1992/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discounts-scotland-order-1992/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax (Discounts) (Scotland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-discounts-scotland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons in detention",
  "text": "(1) Under sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act, a person shall be disregarded for the purposes of discount on a particular day if—\n(a) on the day he is imprisoned, detained or in custody under the Army Act 1955(), the Air Force Act 1955() or the Naval Discipline Act 1957(); and\n(b) the conditions prescribed in paragraph (2) below are fulfilled where they are applicable.\n(2) The conditions are that, where a person is in custody under arrest under any of the Acts mentioned in paragraph (1) above—\n(a) he is not in custody under open arrest; and\n(b) the custody forms part of a continuous period exceeding 48 hours during which he is under arrest.\n(3) A person is to be treated as in custody under open arrest for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) above if he is so treated for the purposes of Queen’s Regulations for the Navy, Army or Air Force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1955 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1955 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1957 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1408/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:21:20.124880+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."
}