HC Deb 02 May 1989 vol 152 c19W
Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which classes of people are exempt from water charges in Scotland.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

People are exempt from water charges in Scotland if their premises do not receive a public water supply. Further, any person detailed in schedule IA to the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, as amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, as exempted from the personal community charge, is also exempted from the personal community water charge.

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