{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1993/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1993/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/484",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1993",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Community charge benefit",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of section 140(2) of the Act, an appropriate authority’s community charge benefit subsidy for the relevant year shall be–\n(a) in the case of an appropriate authority to which articles 19 and 20 do not apply, 95 per cent. of its community charge benefit qualifying expenditure;\n(b) in the case of an appropriate authority to which at least one of those articles is relevant an amount equal to the aggregate of–\n(i) 95 per cent. of so much of its community charge benefit qualifying expenditure as remains after deducting the amount of expenditure attributable to the community charge benefit to which each of those articles which is relevant applies; plus\n(ii) the appropriate amount calculated in respect of the community charge benefit under each such article,\nplus, in each case, the addition, where applicable, under article 21, less in each case the deduction, where applicable, under article 23.\n(2) Where, during the relevant year there has been a period overrun in respect of community charge benefit, that authority’s community charge benefit subsidy for that year shall be adjusted by deducting from the subsidy otherwise due under this article an amount equal to the percentage, as calculated in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, of the community charge benefit qualifying expenditure for that authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/484/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:03:37.590514+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."
}