The Personal Community Charge (Students)(Amendment) Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1986

COMMUNITY CHARGES, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Personal Community Charge (Students)(Amendment) Regulations 1990

Made

5th October 1990

Laid before Parliament

5th October 1990

Coming into force

26th October 1990

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects the community charges of charging authorities in England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects the community charges of charging authorities in Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 30(1) and 143(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Community Charge (Students) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 26th October 1990.

(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Personal Community Charge (Students) Regulations 1989(2).

Amendment of the principal Regulations

2.  The principal Regulations are amended by the insertion, after regulation 5, of the following—

“Foreign language assistants

5A.— (1) In relation to a person who does not fulfil the conditions specified in regulation 3, the conditions mentioned in paragraph (2) below are prescribed for the purposes of section 30(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, (so that the person is to be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education on a particular day for the purposes of Part I of that Act if, and only if, he fulfils those conditions).

(2) The conditions are that—

(a) on the day the person is registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges as a foreign language assistant; and

(b) the day falls within the period of the person’s appointment as a foreign language assistant at a school or other educational institution in Great Britain.”.

Chris Patten

Secretary of State for the Environment

5th October 1990

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

4th October 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Personal Community Charge (Students) Regulations 1989 which make provision, as regards the community charges of charging authorities in England and Wales, with respect to persons undertaking full-time courses of education.

The effect of the amendment is that persons registered with the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges as foreign language assistants will be treated as undertaking a full-time course of education for the purposes of Part I of the Local Government Finance Act 1988.

(1)

1988 c. 41.

(2)

S.I. 1989/443, amended by S.I. 1989/2274.