{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1890",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Maximum housing benefit",
  "text": "(1) Except in a case to which paragraph (2) applies the amount of a person’s maximum housing benefit shall be–\n(a) 80% of his liability for a personal community charge;\nor\n(b) 80% of his liability for a collective community charge contribution;\nand shall be calculated on a weekly basis in accordance with regulation 56 (calculation of weekly amounts).\n(2) Where a claim for housing benefit is made by or on behalf of a couple or the members of a polygamous marriage, the maximum housing benefit in respect of that couple or those members shall be 80% of the aggregate of the personal community charges or collective community charge contributions for which they are liable, except that where any member of that couple or marriage is a registered student the liability of that member for any such charge or contribution shall be disregarded.\n(3) In calculating a person’s maximum housing benefit, any reduction to which Schedule 2 paragraph 4A of the 1987 Act refers shall be disregarded.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 in force at 1.4.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 2, paragraph 4A was inserted in the 1987 Act by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 36(6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1890/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:44.151213+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."
}