The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment Regulations 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989 in the following respects—

(a) they add to the sums which are to be disregarded in calculating a person’s earnings (regulation 2);

(b) they amend the manner in which a student’s income is calculated (regulations 3 and 5);

(c) they amend the conditions which specify how notional capital attributed to a claimant is to be reduced (regulation 4);

(d) they extend the provisions governing the date on which a claim is made (regulation 6);

(e) they make separate provision for Scotland and England and Wales with respect to the time and manner in which community charge benefit is to be awarded (regulations 7 and 8);

(f) they amend the provisions specifying the circumstances in which excess benefits awarded in consequence of official errors are not recoverable (regulation 9);

(g) they amend the circumstances in which the value of a right to receive income may be disregarded from a claimant’s capital (regulation 10).