# The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988, Regulation 4: Amendment of principal Regulations


Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (standard community charge-prescribed excepted classes of premises) shall be amended as follows:—
(a) at the end of paragraph (c) the word “and” shall be deleted;
(b) in paragraph (d) for the word “reconstructed.” there shall be substituted the words “reconstructed; and” ;
(c) after paragraph (d) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—
“(e) a dwellinghouse in respect of any time during which any person who would, but for this provision, be liable to pay the standard community charge in respect thereof (including any person who may be jointly and severally liable for that charge) falls within the following description, that is to say:—
(i) he is solely or mainly resident in premises which are a hospital, residential care home, nursing home, private hospital or hostel;
(ii) he is exempt from liability to pay the personal community charge by virtue of paragraph 8 or 9 of Schedule 1A to the Act (exemption from liability of certain persons solely or mainly resident in such premises); and (iii) immediately before becoming solely or mainly resident in such premises, he was solely or mainly resident in the dwellinghouse.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1540/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/standard-and-collective-community-charges-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-4
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