The Personal Community Charge (Exemptions) (Scotland) Regulations 1989

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987;

“the 1944 Act” means the Education Act 1944((1));

“the 1980 Act” means the Education (Scotland) Act 1980((2));

“the 1986 Order” means the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986((3));

“educational establishment” means—

(i)

a university and any college, school, hall or other institution of a university;

(ii)

a central institution within the meaning of section 135(1) of the 1980 Act;

(iii)

a college of education within the meaning of section 135(1) of the 1980 Act;

(iv)

any other institution for the provision of further education in Scotland;

(v)

   

an establishment of further education in England or Wales maintained or assisted by a local education authority within the meaning of the 1944 Act or in receipt of grants made under regulations made under section 100 of that Act((4));

(vi)

an institution within the P.C.F.C. funding sector;

(vii)

a college of education within the meaning of article 2(2) of the 1986 Order;

(viii)

an institution of further education in Northern Ireland provided by an Education and Library Board constituted in accordance with Schedule 1 to the 1986 Order;

(ix)

a theological college;

(x)

an institute of a Research Council established by Royal Charter under section 1 of the Science and Technology Act 1965((5));

“further education”, in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act, in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the 1944 Act and, in relation to Northern Ireland, has the same meaning as in article 5(c) of the 1986 Order;

“institution within the P.C.F.C. funding sector” has the same meaning as in section 120(8) of the Education Reform Act 1988((6));

and any reference to a provision of the Act includes a reference to that provision as read with paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 to the Act and the Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988.

(1)

1944 c. 31

(2)

1980 c. 44

(3)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I.3).

(4)

Section 100 was amended by S.I. 1964/490, article 3(2)(a), the Local Government Act 1958 (c. 55), Schedule 8, paragraphs 16(2) and 35 and Schedule 9, Part II, the Education Act 1962 (c. 12), Schedule 2, and the Education Act 1980 (c. 20), Schedule 7.

(5)

1965 c. 4; section 1 was amended by the Nature Conservancy Council Act 1973 (c. 54), Schedule 4.

(6)

1988 c. 40