Community Charges (General Reduction) Act 1991

1 Statutory reduction of community charges: England and Wales

(1) The amount which, immediately before the relevant day, is the amount set by a charging authority for its personal community charges for the whole or any part of its area for the 1991 financial year shall, by virtue of this section, be reduced by £140 or such lesser sum as will reduce the amount to £0.

(2) Except as provided by section 2 below, personal community charges of an amount which has been reduced under subsection (1) above shall have effect for all purposes as if they were personal community charges of an amount lawfully set on the relevant day by the charging authority concerned under section 34 of the 1988 Act (in substitution for an amount previously set).

(3) Except as provided by section 2 below, in this section “the relevant day” means the day following that on which this Act is passed.

(4) No account shall be taken of any reduction under subsection (1) above in determining whether any amount which, before the relevant day, was set by a charging authority for its personal community charges (for the whole or any part of its area) was set in compliance with any provision made by or under the 1988 Act.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in the 1988 Act, no person shall be liable to pay any amount in respect of a community charge for any day in the 1991 financial year until there has been served on him a demand (complying with regulations under the 1988 Act) which is expressed to take account of the provisions of this Act.

(6) Regulations may be made under any provision of the 1988 Act for the purposes of giving effect to, or in consequence of, any provision of this section or section 2 below and any such regulations may have retrospective effect.

(7) Expressions used in this section and in the 1988 Act have the same meaning in this section as in that Act.