HC Deb 19 June 1990 vol 174 c526W
Mr. Ashley

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what level of community charge students in Scotland who pay 20 per cent. of the community charge where they are studying, pay on their own property which is not classified as their sole or main residence, or is empty for three months or more.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

Regulation 4 of, and paragraph 4 of schedule 2 to the Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Regulations 1989 prescribe a standard Community charge multiplier of 0 (that is, no charge payable) in respect of a dwellinghouse.

  1. (a) in respect of which the standard community charge is, or would be, but for the regulations, payable by a person who is undertaking a full-time course of education or nursing education within the meaning of section 8 of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, as amended; and
  2. (b) which was the sole or main residence of that person immediately before he undertook that course.