{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standard-community-charge-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standard-community-charge-scotland-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2437",
  "legislation_title": "The Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standard-community-charge-scotland-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987;\n“dwellinghouse” includes any garden, yard, garage, outhouse or pertinent belonging to and occupied along with the dwellinghouse;\n“hospital” has the same meaning as in paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 1A to the Act();\n“hostel” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9(5) of Schedule 1A to the Act;\n“nursing home” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 1A to the Act;\n“personal care” includes the provision of appropriate help with physical and social needs;\n“private hospital” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9(4) of Schedule 1A to the Act;\n“registered housing association” has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Housing Associations Act 1985(); and\n“residential care home” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 1A to the Act.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a person liable to pay the standard community charge includes any person who may be jointly and severally liable to pay that charge.\n(3) Any reference in these Regulations to a section of or a Schedule to the Act includes a reference to that section or Schedule as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Act and the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988 and the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1A to the Act was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, Schedule 12, paragraph 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 69; Part I of that Act was amended by the Housing Act 1988 (c. 50), Schedule 6, Part I."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/41",
      "affecting_title": "The Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/41",
      "affecting_title": "The Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2437/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:26.263474+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."
}