Severe mental impairment and ESA

Hi,

Hope that someone can help with this.

I’m trying to confirm what regulations amended the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992 so as to include ESA as a qualifying benefit for the purposes of a discount on severe mental impairment grounds.

I’ve searched on http://www.legislation.gov.uk and just can’t find anything.

Thanks,

Ken

Ken Butler - 21 February 2013 12:18 PM

Hi,

Hope that someone can help with this.

I’m trying to confirm what regulations amended the Council Tax (Discount Disregards) Order 1992 so as to include ESA as a qualifying benefit for the purposes of a discount on severe mental impairment grounds.

I’ve searched on http://www.legislation.gov.uk and just can’t find anything.

Thanks,

Ken

CT(DD) Order 1992 was never amended to take account of ESA but it seems that this wasn’t necessary and you can rely on the Interpretation Act : see the last post in this old thread:-

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forum-archive/index604f.html

Hi Jon,

Thanks very much for this - no wonder I couldn’t find anything.