Article 18 Applicable amounts for Community Charge benefits

As from 1st April 1990, the sums relevant to the calculation of an applicable amount and specified in the Community Charge Benefits Regulations shall be the sums set out in the following provisions of this article and in Schedules 10 and 11 to this Order; and for this purpose references in this article to a numbered regulation or Schedule are, unless the context otherwise requires, references to the regulations of and Schedules to the Community Charge Benefits Regulations bearing that number.

In regulations 7(b) and 8(c) (applicable amounts) the sum specified is in each regulation £3,000.

In regulation 9(1) (patients), for the sum of £8.70 in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (d)(ii), there shall be substituted the sum of £11.75, for the sum of £8.70 in sub-paragraphs (c) and (d)(i) there shall be substituted the sum of £9.40 and for the sum of £17.40 there shall be substituted the sum of £23.50.

The sums specified in Part I of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts: personal allowances) shall be increased; and accordingly that Part of Schedule 1 shall have effect as set out in Schedule 10 to this Order.

In paragraph 3 of Part II of Schedule 1, for the sum of £6.50 there shall be substituted the increased sum of £7.35.

The sums specified in Part IV of Schedule 1 (applicable amounts: premiums) shall be increased; and accordingly that Part of Schedule 1 shall have effect as set out in Schedule 11 to this Order.

In paragraph 20 of Schedule 3 (sums disregarded in calculation of income other than earnings), for the sum of £7.00 there shall be substituted the increased sum of £7.35.