HC Deb 25 April 1988 vol 132 c87

Amendment made: No. 81, in page 70, line 28, leave out from '1987' to the end of line 33 and insert ', section 8 (liability for personal community charge) shall be amended as follows. (2) In subsection (8) at the end there shall be added the following paragraphs—

  1. "(e) persons who have a relevant association with a visiting force;
  2. (f) persons who are members of a headquarters and dependants of such persons."
(3) After subsection (9) there shall be added the following subsections— (10) For the purpose of paragraph (e) of subsection (8) above—
  1. (a) a visiting force, in relation to any particular time in a financial year, is anybody, contingent or detachment of the forces of a country to which any provision in Part I of the Visiting Forces Act 1952 applies at that time; and
  2. (b) a person has, at any particular time in a financial year, a relevant association with a visiting force if he has at that time such an association within the meaning of that Part.
(11) For the purposes of paragraph (0 of subsection (8) above—
  1. (a) a headquarters, in relation to any particular time in a financial year, is a headquarters or organisation designated at that time by an Order in Council under section 1 of the International Headquarters and Defence Organisations Act 1964;
  2. (b) a person is, at any particular time in a financial year, a member of a headquarters if he is at that time such a member within the meaning of the Schedule to that Act; and
  3. (c) a person is, at any particular time in a financial year, a dependant of such a member if he is at that time such a dependant within the meaning of that Schedule.".'.[Mr. Lang.]

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