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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-relief-no-2-scotland-regulations-1990/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1714",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-community-charge-relief-no-2-scotland-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1987 Act” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987;\n“the Rebate Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988;\n“the Benefit Regulations” means the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989;\n“the Relief Regulations” means the Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Scotland) Regulations 1990;\n“benefit week” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Benefit Regulations;\n“community charge benefit” means a benefit under section 31A of the Social Security Act 1986;\n“community charge rebate” means the rebate in that form in section 28 of the Social Security Act 1986;\n“eligible person” means a person eligible for relief under these Regulations and shall be construed in accordance with regulation 4 below;\n“financial year” means the period of 12 months beginning on 1st April;\n“member of a couple” means a member of a married couple or an unmarried couple where the expressions “married couple” and “unmarried couple” have the meanings assigned to them by section 20(11) of the Social Security Act 1986;\n“regional personal community charge” means the personal community charge imposed by a regional council, and “islands personal community charge” and “district personal community charge” have the corresponding meanings;\n“relevant local authority” means the local authority to which an application is made under regulation 4(1)(e) below for a reduction in liability in respect of the personal community charge for the financial year 1989-90; and\n“week” means any complete period of 7 consecutive days commencing on a Monday and ending on a Sunday.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a person who is liable to pay the personal community charge in respect of a financial year includes—\n(a) a person who is jointly and severally liable for that charge by virtue of section 8(7) of the 1987 Act; and\n(b) a person who is liable only for a part of that personal community charge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1890, as amended by S.I. 1989/361 and 972."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1321, as amended by S.I. 1990/834 and 835."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/421, as amended by S.I. 1990/625."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1986 c. 50; section 31A was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 10, paragraph 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1986 c. 50; section 28 was modified by the Housing Benefit (Social Security Act 1986 Modifications) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1483) to extend to community charge rebates."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 8(7) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, Schedule 12, paragraph 18(7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/854",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Community Charge (Reduction for 1990-91) (Scotland) Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/2539",
      "affecting_title": "The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1714/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:08:23.776455+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."
}