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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standard-community-charge-scotland-amendment-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standard-community-charge-scotland-amendment-regulations-1991",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2437) (“the principal Regulations”) with effect from 1st April 1991.\nThese Regulations prescribe a class of premises in respect of which the maximum standard community charge multiplier is ½, namely a dwellinghouse where the charge is payable by a person who is solely or mainly resident in another dwellinghouse where his residence in that other dwellinghouse is “job-related” – see regulations 4, 5 and 8.\nThese Regulations prescribe a class of premises in respect of which the maximum standard community charge multiplier is 1, namely a dwellinghouse which forms part of a building which is not domestic subjects and which is difficult to let separately from that building – see regulations 4 and 8.\nThese Regulations prescribe an additional class of premises which are excepted from the standard community charge, namely a dwellinghouse which forms part of, or is within the curtilage of, another dwellinghouse, which is difficult to let separately from that other dwellinghouse and where the standard community charge would have been payable by a person who is solely or mainly resident in that other dwellinghouse – see regulation 6.\nThe Regulations also prescribe an additional class of premises in respect of which the standard community charge multiplier is zero, namely a dwellinghouse where the charge is or would be payable by a person who is a debtor in a heritable security and where the creditor in that heritable security has entered into possession of the dwellinghouse – see regulation 7.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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