Regulation 15 Calculation of amount payable

Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 16, the amount which a person who is an eligible person for the purposes of this Part is liable to pay in respect of a personal community charge of the authority to whose charge he is subject as mentioned in regulation 7(1)(a) shall be calculated as if that charging authority had set a charge equal to the product of the formula–

• where Z equals any amount by which the set charge is higher than the scheme charge of the relevant authority.

This regulation does not apply to a person if the product of the calculation under paragraph (1) in his case is an amount which is greater than the amount of the set charge.