The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Made: 26th March 1991

Laid before Parliament: 27th March 1991

Coming into force: 1st April 1991

The Secretary of State for Wales, in exercise of the powersconferred on him by sections 13A, 140(4) and 143(1) of the LocalGovernment Finance Act 1988[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf,hereby makes the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Community Charge(Relief) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1991, and shall come into forceon 1st April 1991.

2

The Personal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) Regulations 1991[^f00002] (“the principal Regulations”) shall have effect with the amendments prescribed in theseRegulations.

3

Paragraph (2) of Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is herebyamended by—

• (a) inserting“(a)” after“less”, and

• (b) adding at the end a comma and the words“or (b) if less, such sum as is equal to its set charge.”

Signed

David Hunt — Secretary of State for Wales — 26th March 1991

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 3 of these Regulations makes a minor amendment to thePersonal Community Charge (Relief) (Wales) Regulations 1991 (S.I.1991/212). In cases where the relief prescribed under those regulationswould otherwise produce a negative amount when deducted from a chargingauthority’s set charge, the amendment prescribes that the relief will beof an amount equal to the set charge, thus producing a result of zerofor the figure on which liability is calculated.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 41: section 13A is inserted by paragraph 5 ofSchedule 5 to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1991/212.