{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/587",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Community charge benefit applicable amount",
  "text": "(1) If, in the case of an appropriate authority in England and Wales—\n(a) X (the total of the housing benefit applicable amount calculated under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 and the sum calculated under paragraph 2 in respect of that appropriate authority) exceeds Y (120 per cent. of the relevant amount), the community charge benefit applicable amount for that appropriate for the relevant year shall be the amount as calculated under paragraph 2 less the excess; or\n(b) X (the total of the housing benefit applicable amount calculated under paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 and the sum calculated under paragraph 2 in respect of that appropriate authority) is less than Z (70 per cent. of the relevant amount) the community charge benefit applicable amount for that appropriate authority shall be the amount as calculated under paragraph 2 plus the difference.\n(2) The relevant amount for the purposes of paragraphs 3 and 5 is the additional sum payable to the appropriate authority for the financial year ending 31 March 1990 calculated in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (Subsidy) Order (calculation of subsidy in respect of administration costs).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/785."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/587/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:48:30.853395+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."
}