Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 1st July 1989.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988(4).

Amendment of principal Regulations

3. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (standard community charge-prescribed excepted classes of premises)((4)) shall be amended as follows:-

(a)at the end of paragraph (d) the word "and" shall be deleted;

(b)in paragraph (e) for the words "the dwellinghouse." there shall be substituted the words "the dwellinghouse; and" ;

(c)after paragraph (e) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:-

"(f)a dwellinghouse-

(i)which is situated on lands and heritages used for agricultural or pastoral purposes only, or as woodlands, market gardens, orchards, allotments or allotment gardens, or on lands exceeding one tenth of an hectare used for the purpose of poultry farming,

(ii)which is unoccupied and unfurnished, and

(iii)which, when last occupied and used, was occupied together with and used in connection with the lands and heritages on which the dwellinghouse is situated, together with any garden, yard, garage, outhouse or pertinent belonging to or occupied along with that dwellinghouse.".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988 by prescribing an additional class of premises in respect of which the standard community charge and standard community water charge are not payable, namely certain agricultural dwellinghouses which are unoccupied and unfurnished.