{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/standard-community-charge-scotland-regulations-1989/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "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": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "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 falls within the following description, that is to say:—\n(a) he is solely or mainly resident in premises which are a hospital, residential care home, nursing home, private hospital or hostel;\n(b) 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\n(c) immediately before becoming solely or mainly resident in such premises, he was solely or mainly resident in the dwellinghouse.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/41",
      "affecting_title": "The Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2437/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}