Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (City of London) (Amendment)Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 29th March 1991.

(2) In these Regulations"the 1991 Regulations" means the Community Charges and Non-Domestic Rating (DemandNotices) (City of London) Regulations 1991(3).

Amendment of the 1991 Regulations

2.-(1) The 1991 Regulations have effect with the amendments specified inthe following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1(2), in the definition of"the relevant charge", there are inserted after the words"section 13A of the Act"a comma and the words"and which has been reduced by virtue of the Community Charges(General Reduction) Act 1991".

(3) In regulation 2, for the words"a financial year beginning on or after 1st April 1991" there are substituted the words"the financial year beginning on 1st April 1991".

(4) In regulation 3, in paragraph (1), the words"Subject to paragraph (2)," and, in paragraph (5), the words"Subject to paragraph (6)," are omitted.

(5) In regulation 3, paragraphs (2) and (6) are omitted and afterparagraph (5) there is inserted the following paragraph-

"(5A) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this regulation requires anotice to be given on a single sheet of paper, but if more than onesheet is used, the sheets shall be issued together, whether or notattached, so as to comprise one notice.".

(6) In Part I of Schedule 1-

(a)for sub-paragraph (g) of paragraph 1, there is substituted thefollowing-

"(g)the aggregate of-

(i)the amount of the reduction under section 1 of the Community Charges(General Reduction) Act 1991; and

(ii)the amount of any adjustment necessary so that the amount of therelevant charge may be derived from the amounts mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) above and paragraph (i) of this sub-paragraph.";

(b)in paragraph 7, in the explanatory notes, for the note headed"OTHER ADJUSTMENTS" there is substituted the following note-

"STATUTORY REDUCTION AND ADJUSTMENTS: The charge set by the CommonCouncil has been reduced by £140 under the Community Charges (GeneralReduction) Act 1991. The Act provides for the Government to make a grantto the Council to compensate it for this. In addition, adjustments aremade to take account of the Common Council's estimate of:

• interest payable to or by the Council on certain monies

• changes in income due to movement of people on and off the community charges register

• income from standard community charges

• community charges not collected by the Council.";

(c)after paragraph 7 there is inserted the followingparagraph-

"8. A statement in the following terms-

• "THIS COMMUNITY CHARGE DEMAND TAKES ACCOUNT OF THE PROVISIONS OF THECOMMUNITY CHARGES (GENERAL REDUC- TION) ACT 1991."".

(7) In paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 1, for the word and figures"1 to 7" there are substituted the word and figures"1 to 8".

(8) In paragraph 1 of Parts III and IV of Schedule 1, for the word andfigures"2 and 7" there are substituted the word and figures"2, 7 and 8".

(9) In paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 3-

(a)in sub-paragraph (c) for the words"paragraph 1(c) to (g)" there are substituted the words"paragraph 1(c) to (f) and (g)(ii)"; and

(b)at the end there is inserted the following-

• "with an indication, whether as part of the breakdown or expressed byreference to it, that account has been taken of the Community Charges(General Reduction) Act 1991.".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Community Charges (General Reduction) Act 1991 ("the 1991 Act") reduced the amount set by charging authorities for their personalcommunity charges for the financial year beginning 1st April 1991 by£140 (or such lesser amount as would reduce the amount to £0), and atsection 1(5) provided for the liability of chargepayers to be suspendeduntil they are served with a demand which is expressed to take accountof the provisions of the 1991 Act.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations amends the Community Charges andNon-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (City of London) Regulations 1991"the demand notice Regulations") which make provision for the content of community charge and ratedemand notices issued by the Common Council of the City of London andthe information to be supplied with them. The amendments-

(a)limit the application of the demand notice Regulations to noticesserved in respect of the financial year beginning on 1st April 1991; and

(b)provide for the manner in which account is to be taken of theprovisions of the 1991 Act, and make consequential provision.