The Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1992

The severely mentally impaired

2.  Sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 4 of Schedule 1A to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987(1) (conditions for the severely mentally impaired being exempt from liability for the personal community charge and the personal community water charge) shall be amended by adding, after condition (j), the following conditions:—

“(k) he is entitled to the care component of a disability living allowance under section 37ZB of the Social Security Act 1975(2) payable to him at the highest rate under subsection (4)(a) of that section or at the middle rate under subsection (4)(b) of that section;

(l) he is entitled to a disability working allowance under section 20 of the Social Security Act 1986(3) for which the qualifying benefit is one falling within sub-paragraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (a) of subsection (6B) of that section.”.

(1)

Sub-paragraph (2) was amended by S.I. 1989/63 and 2234.

(2)

1975 c. 14; section 37ZB was inserted by the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21), section 1.

(3)

1986 c. 50; section 20 was relevantly amended by the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991, section 6.