{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-reduction-for-1992-93-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-reduction-for-1992-93-scotland-regulations-1992/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/358",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Community Charge (Reduction for 1992-93) (Scotland) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-reduction-for-1992-93-scotland-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Persons eligible for reduction",
  "text": "(1) In this Part, an “eligible person” means, subject to paragraph (3) and to regulation 23, a person if—\n(a) on 1st April 1989, he was solely or mainly resident in the area of a regional council at the address of the dwellinghouse specified in the register as having been his sole or main residence on that date;\n(b) on 1st April 1992, he is solely or mainly resident in the same dwellinghouse and is liable to pay the personal community charge determined by that regional council in respect of the financial year 1992-93;\n(c) on 1st April 1991, he satisfied one of the three conditions set out in paragraph (2);\n(d) an application is made by him or on his behalf or, as the case may be, by his executors to the relevant levying authority on or before 1st October 1992 (or such later date as that authority may allow) for community charge reduction under this Part; and\n(e) he, or the person applying on his behalf or, as the case may be, his executors has or have signed a declaration to the effect that he is not or was not a former ratepayer or the spouse of a former ratepayer of the dwellinghouse referred to in sub-paragraph (a).\n(2) The three conditions mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) are that the person—\n(a) if a man, had attained the age of 65; or\n(b) if a woman, had attained the age of 60; or\n(c) personally satisfied the additional condition set out in paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988.\n(3) A person who satisfies the conditions of being an eligible person under paragraph (1) and also under regulation 7(1) or 13(1) shall only be an eligible person under this Part if this would result in a greater reduction than under Part II or, as the case may be, Part III in the amount of the personal community charge in respect of the financial year 1992-93 which he would pay apart from these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1890, amended by S.I. 1989/43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/358/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:28:49.400327+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."
}