To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he intends to amend the statutory notes within the Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988, No. 1539) to give effect to the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, which extended exemption from the community charge to those who are severely mentally impaired by reason of degenerative conditions.

These notes are amended by the Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No. 2) Amendment Regulations 1991 which were made on 14 January and which will be laid before Parliament on 28 January. The notes have no bearing upon the operation of the changes to the arrangements for exempting the severely mentally impaired which came into force on 29 December 1989 with backdated effect, by virtue of the Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1989.