# The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1993, Article 16: Interpretation of Part III


(1) In this Part of this Order, unless the context otherwise requires–
“appropriate authority” means a charging authority to which section 139(2) of the Act (arrangements for benefits) refers or, as the case may be, in Scotland, a levying authority to which section 139(3) of the Act refers;
“community charge benefit subsidy” means subsidy under section 140 of the Act;
“the Community Charge Benefits Regulations” means the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989,
and other expressions shall have the same meanings as in the Community Charge Benefits Regulations.
(2) In this part of this Order “community charge benefit qualifying expenditure” means the total of community charge benefits granted by the appropriate authority during the relevant year, less–
(a) the deductions specified in article 22; and
(b) where, under sub-section (6) of section 139 of the Act(arrangements for community charge benefit), the appropriate authority has modified any part of the scheme administered by it, any amount by which the total of the community charge benefits which it granted under the scheme during the relevant year exceeds the total of those which it would have granted if the scheme had not been so modified.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/484/article/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1993/article-16
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