<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/339" NumberOfProvisions="3" xml:lang="en" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0"><ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
					<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made</dc:identifier><dc:title>The Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012</dc:title><dc:subject>Council tax</dc:subject><dc:subject>Tax</dc:subject><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:publisher>King's Printer for Scotland</dc:publisher><dc:modified>2013-05-07</dc:modified><dc:subject scheme="SIheading">COUNCIL TAX</dc:subject>
					<dc:description>This Order amends the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Order 1997 as regards dwellings that, under that Order, are classed as empty.</dc:description>
					<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.xml" type="application/xml"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/resources" title="More Resources"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/policy-note" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/policy-note" title="Policy Note"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/policy-note/toc" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/policy-note/contents" title="Policy Note Table of Contents"/>
					
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/made" title="whole act"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/introduction/made" title="introduction"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/signature" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/signature/made" title="signature"/><atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/note" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/note/made" title="note"/>
					<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/body/made" title="body"/>
					
					
										
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.akn" title="AKN"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.csv" title="CSV"/><atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
					<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>

					
					<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/contents/made" title="Table of Contents"/>
					
					
					
					<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/made" title="Entire legislation"/><atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/1/made" title="Provision; Article 1"/><atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/1/made" title="Provision; Article 1"/><atom:link rel="next" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/3/made" title="Provision; Article 3"/><atom:link rel="nextInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/3/made" title="Provision; Article 3"/>
					<ukm:SecondaryMetadata><ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:DocumentCategory Value="secondary"/>
<ukm:DocumentMainType Value="ScottishStatutoryInstrument"/>
<ukm:DocumentStatus Value="final"/>
<ukm:DocumentMinorType Value="order"/>
</ukm:DocumentClassification><ukm:Year Value="2012"/><ukm:Number Value="339"/><ukm:Made Date="2012-12-06"/><ukm:Laid Date="2012-12-10" Class="ScottishParliament"/><ukm:ComingIntoForce>
<ukm:DateTime Date="2013-04-01"/></ukm:ComingIntoForce><ukm:ISBN Value="9780111018743"/></ukm:SecondaryMetadata>
					

                    
									<ukm:Notes><ukm:Note IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/339/notes"/><ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/pdfs/ssipn_20120339_en.pdf" Date="2012-12-11" Title="Policy Note" Size="12633"/></ukm:Alternatives>       
								</ukm:Notes> 
					<ukm:Alternatives><ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/pdfs/ssi_20120339_en.pdf" Date="2012-12-11" Size="46437"/></ukm:Alternatives>
					
					<ukm:Statistics>
									<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="3"/>
									<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="3"/>
									<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="0"/>
									<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
									<ukm:TotalImages Value="0"/>
								</ukm:Statistics>
				</ukm:Metadata><Secondary><Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/body/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/339/body" NumberOfProvisions="3"><P1group><Title>Amendment of the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Order 1997</Title><P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/339/article/2" id="article-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<Text>In paragraph 4(b) (empty dwellings) of Schedule 1 to the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Order 1997<FootnoteRef Ref="f00002"/>—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/a/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/339/article/2/a" id="article-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>for “6 weeks” substitute “3 months”; and</Text>
</P3para></P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/339/article/2/b/made" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2012/339/article/2/b" id="article-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>omit “or furnished”.</Text>
</P3para></P3>
</P1para>
</P1></P1group></Body></Secondary><Footnotes><Footnote id="f00002">
<FootnoteText>
<Para><Text><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/1997/728" id="c00003" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="1997" Number="0728"><Acronym Expansion="Statutory Instrument">S.I.</Acronym> 1997/728</Citation>.</Text></Para>
</FootnoteText>
</Footnote></Footnotes></Legislation>