Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings and Discount Disregards) (Amendment) Order 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/291 |
1998 No. 291
COUNCIL TAX, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings and Discount Disregards) (Amendment) Order 1998
Made 11th February 1998
Laid before Parliament 19th February 1998
Coming into force 1st April 1998
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 4 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to, the Local Government Finance Act 19921, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings and Discount Disregards) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.
Exempt dwellings: dependent relatives
2. For article 2(5) of the Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) Order 19922(which defines the classes of relative who may be dependent for the purposes of Class W of exempt dwellings) there is substituted—
“5 For the purposes of Class W a person is to be regarded as the relative of another if—
(a) he is the spouse of that person, or
(b) he is that person’s parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle or aunt, nephew or niece, great-grandparent, great-grandchild, great-uncle, great-aunt, great-nephew or great-niece, or
(c) he is that person’s great-great-grandparent, great-great-grandchild, great-great-uncle, great-great-aunt, great-great-nephew or great-great-niece;
and—
(i) a relationship by marriage shall be treated as a relationship by blood;
(ii) a relationship between a man and a woman living together as husband and wife shall be treated as a relationship by marriage; and
(iii) the stepchild of a person shall be treated as his child.”
Discount disregards: apprentices
3. In paragraph 1(c)(ii) (maximum salary etc.) of Schedule 1 (definition of students etc.) to the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 19923, for “£130 per week” there is substituted “£160 per week”.
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
11th February 1998
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
11th February 1998
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 4 of the Local Government Act 1992 enables the Secretary of State to prescribe by...
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