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The Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1992

S.I. 1992/503 · Made 3 March 1992

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COMMUNITY CHARGES, SCOTLAND

WATER SUPPLY, SCOTLAND

Made 3rd March 1992

Laid before Parliament 9th March 1992

Coming into force 1st April 1992

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 4(4) of Schedule 1A to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987f1 and that paragraph as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to that Actf2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1987 c. 47; Schedule 1A was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 35.

f2

Paragraph 11 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, Schedule 12, paragraph 38.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2The severely mentally impaired
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

2The severely mentally impaired

Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1A to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987f1 (conditions for the severely mentally impaired being exempt from liability for the personal community charge and the personal community water charge) shall be amended by adding, after condition (j), the following conditions:—

“(k)

he is entitled to the care component of a disability living allowance under section 37ZB of the Social Security Act 1975f2 payable to him at the highest rate under subsection (4)(a) of that section or at the middle rate under subsection (4)(b) of that section;

(l)

he is entitled to a disability working allowance under section 20 of the Social Security Act 1986f3 for which the qualifying benefit is one falling within sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (6B) of that section.”.

Signature

Allan Stewart

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St. Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

3rd March 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1A to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 (as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to that Act), 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 and the personal community water charge if one or more of the conditions mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of that paragraph is satisfied. Those conditions were amended by article 4 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Personal Community Charge (Exemptions) (Scotland) Regulations 1989, and by article 3 of the Personal Com munity Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1989.

These Regulations insert further conditions into paragraph 4(2) so that a person will qualify for exemption if he is entitled to the care component of a disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate, or if he is entitled to a disability working allowance (provided in the latter case that prior to this he was entitled to an invalidity pension or a severe disablement allowance).