The Personal Community Charge (Reduction for 1990-91) (Scotland) Regulations 1991

Persons eligible for reduction

19.—(1) In this Part, an “eligible person” means, subject to regulation 24, a person if—

(a) on 1st April 1989, he was solely or mainly resident in the area of the local authority at the address of the dwellinghouse specified in the register as having been his sole or main residence on that date;

(b) on that date, he was liable to pay the personal community charge determined by that local authority in respect of the financial year 1989—90;

(c) on that date, he satisfied one of the three conditions set out in paragraph (2);

(d) an application is made by him or on his behalf or, as the case may be, by his executors to the relevant levying authority on or before 1st October 1991 (or such later date as that authority may allow) for community charge reduction under this Part; and

(e) he, or the person applying on his behalf or, as the case may be, his executors has or have signed a declaration to the effect that he is not or was not a former ratepayer or the spouse of a former ratepayer of the dwellinghouse referred to in sub-paragraph (a).

(2) The three conditions mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) are that the person—

(a) if a man, attained the age of 65 on or before 1st April 1989; or

(b) if a woman, attained the age of 60 on or before that date; or

(c) personally satisfied the additional condition set out in paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988(1).

(3) Where—

(a) before the date of coming into force of these Regulations, a person satisfied the conditions mentioned in paragraph (1) for being an eligible person; but

(b) on or before that date, he also satisfied the conditions in regulation 11, as read with regulation 24, for ceasing to be such a person,

that person shall nevertheless he an eligible person and the provisions of this Part shall apply to him up to but not including the date upon which he ceased to be an eligible person in terms of regulation 11, as read with regulation 24.

(1)

S.I. 1988/1890, amended by S.I. 1989/43.