The Personal Community Charge (Reduction Scheme) (England) Regulations 1991

Part III RATES RELATED REDUCTIONS: TWO OR MORE RESIDENT CHARGEPAYERS

Eligible persons and available reductions

11.—(1) For the purposes of this Part–

• a person is an eligible person if he is one of two or more persons who comply with regulation 7(1)and (b) by virtue of the same residence or two or more residences which are related;

• “the reduction available” means–

  (a)

  as respects each of the eligible persons to whom paragraph (2) does not apply, the product of the formula–

  

  (b)

  as respects each of the eligible persons to whom paragraph (2) applies the product of the formula–

  

  • where C, RV and ARP have the same connotations as in regulation 8(2), W has the same connotation as in regulation 8(4) and E equals the number of persons who are eligible persons by virtue of the residence or residences in question.

(2) This paragraph applies to a person whose sole or main residence is, or is part of, a hereditament in respect of which one of the conditions set out in regulation 8(3) is satisfied.

Calculation of reduction

12.  The amount which any eligible person is liable to pay in respect of a personal community charge of the authority to whose charge he is subject as mentioned in regulation 7(1)(a) shall (unless the product of the formula is a negative amount) be calculated as if that charging authority had set a charge equal to its set charge less the amount of the reduction available in his case.

Termination of reduction

13.—(1) The operation of regulation 12 in relation to an eligible person is not affected by the fact that on or after 1st April 1992 another person becomes or ceases to be subject to a personal community charge by virtue of the same residence as that person or a related residence.

(2) Regulation 9(2) to (4) applies in relation to regulation 12 as it applies in relation to regulation 8.

(3) Regulation 10 applies in relation to this Part as it applies in relation to Part II.