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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-exemption-for-the-severely-mentally-impaired-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/462",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-exemption-for-the-severely-mentally-impaired-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nUnder paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 a person who is severely mentally impaired and who holds a certificate of a registered medical practitioner to that effect is exempt from the personal community charge if one or more of the conditions mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph is satisfied. Those conditions were added to under article 3 of the Personal Community Charge (Exemptions) Order 1989 so as to allow a person to qualify for exemption if he is in receipt of an invalidity pension or an unemployment supplement or allowance. Article 2(1) of this Order adds further conditions so allowing a person to qualify if he is entitled to attendance allowance or constant attendance allowance (or would be entitled to it but for the requirements as to residence or presence in Great Britain or for a claim). It also deletes the condition relating to pensionable age, so that it is no longer possible for a severely mentally impaired person to qualify for exemption merely because he has reached that age.\nArticle 2(2) substitutes a new definition of severe mental impairment. Under the substitute provision, a person is to be treated as severely mentally impaired if he has a severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning, whatever the cause, provided that it appears to be permanent. It is not necessary that it should have been caused by or involved arrested or incomplete development of mind, or an injury to the brain, as under the previous definition.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/462/note",
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  "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."
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