The Domestic Sewerage Charges (Reduction) (Scotland) Regulations 1996

Amount of charges

3.—(1) Where regulation 2 above applies, the amount payable in respect of sewerage services for a day shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula:—

(2) In paragraph (1) above—

• A is the relevant annual amount in respect of the dwelling and day in question, ascertained in accordance with paragraph (3) below;

• B is the amount which appears in the Schedule to these Regulations—

  (a)

  opposite to the council tax band applicable to the dwelling for the day in question (as shown in column 1 of that Schedule); and

  (b)

  in whichever of columns 2, 3 or 4 of that Schedule is applicable to the new water and sewerage authority within the sewerage area of which the dwelling in question is situated; and

• C is—

  (a)

  where the dwelling is one to which subsection (1) of section 79 of the 1992 Act applies on the day in question, 75;

  (b)

  where the dwelling is one to which subsection (2) of that section applies on the day in question, 50; and

  (b)

  in any other case, 100.

(3) The “relevant annual amount” in respect of a dwelling and a day means the amount which would, but for these Regulations, be payable for the relevant year in respect of the provision of sewerage services to that dwelling, on the assumption that—

(a) those services were being provided on every day in that year;

(b) the council tax band applicable to that dwelling for the day in question was the band so applicable on every day in that year;

(c) on no day in that year was subsection (1) or (2) of section 79 of the 1992 Act applicable to that dwelling; and

(d) on every day in that year that dwelling was a chargeable dwelling for the purposes of Part II of the 1992 Act.