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The Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007

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This Order further amends the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Order 1997 (“the 1997 Order”). Schedule 1 to that Order prescribes those classes of dwellings which are exempt dwellings for the purposes of section 72(6) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. This exempts those classes from the council tax.

Article 2 substitutes a new paragraph 25 of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Order, which defines a class of dwelling in respect of which a registered prescribed housing support service (as prescribed in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers) is being provided. The service requires to be provided to at least one licensee, tenant or sub-tenant (as the case may be) of the dwelling. The other stated requirements for the dwelling also require to be met, for the dwelling to be exempt from council tax. These include that every such licensee, tenant or sub-tenant shares the use of at least one facility (as defined in paragraph 25(1)(c)) (but there is no requirement that the same one facility is shared by every person).

A dwelling is not exempt where every licensee, tenant and sub-tenant of the dwelling has an exclusive right to use (at least) a kitchen, and either a bathroom or shower-room (with the bathroom or shower-room either containing a toilet, or there being a separate toilet).

The prescribed housing support services, or types of services, are prescribed at the date of making this Order under section 91(8) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, by the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Housing Support Services) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. 2002/444).

Article 3 revokes article 2 of the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/402). That article prescribed certain lands and heritages to be treated as one dwelling. With the substitution of a new paragraph 25 of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Order, providing a new definition of the class of exempt dwelling, this provision is revoked.

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