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Regulation 13 Persons eligible for relief

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(1)

In this Part, an “eligible person” means, subject to paragraph (2) and to regulation 16, a person if–

(a)

on 1st April 1989, he was solely or mainly resident in the area of a local authority;

(b)

on that date, he was liable to pay the personal community charge determined by that local authority in respect of the financial year 1989-90;

(c)

on that date, there was another person or there were other persons –

(i)

who was or were solely or mainly resident at the address of the dwellinghouse specified in the register as having been his sole or main residence on that date; and

(ii)

who was or were liable to pay the personal community charge on that date;

(d)

he and the other person or persons referred to in subparagraph (c) above had been solely or mainly resident in that dwellinghouse immediately prior to 1st April 1989;

(e)

the condition specified in paragraph (2) or, as the case may be, paragraph (3), of regulation 7 was fulfilled and, for this purpose, any reference in those paragraphs to the dwellinghouse referred to in regulation 7(1)(c) shall be construed as a reference to the dwellinghouse referred to in subparagraph (c) above.

(2)

A person shall not be an elig ible person under this Part if he is an eligible person under Part IV.