MHDC Application for Premises where all the residents are students.

Application for Council Tax student disregard or class N exemption

Failure to provide any of the information requested may result in unnecessary delays.
The person who is liable to pay the Council Tax bill for your home must apply for the exemption or discount disregard. Where more than one person is liable to pay the bill, any one of the “liable persons” can make the application.

A student or student nurse can be disregarded for Council Tax discount purposes only if all of the following conditions apply.

Full-time students
- Attending a prescribed educational establishment
- Undertakes a course of at least one academic or calendar year
- The course normally requires the student to attend for at least 24 weeks each year and for at least 21 hours per week (this includes attendance, tuition, study or work experience)
Please note that where a person undertakes work experience, it is a requirement that the period of work experience does not exceed 50% of the total course time except in the case of student teachers who are exempt from these rules. Open University courses, subject to meeting the criteria would be considered as full time courses. Likewise Project 2000 nurses are regarded to be a student for the purposes of these provisions.

Under 20 and undertaking qualifying course of education

A person can be disregarded if the following criteria are met in full:
- Aged under 20
- Not undertaking a full time course of education
- Undertakes more than 12 hours of study per week
- The course is for more than 3 calendar months
- The course is not one of higher education
- The course is otherwise than correspondence
- The course is not undertaken as part of a person’s employment (day release, etc.)
- The course is normally carried out during 8.00am to 5.30pm
- The time criteria must consist of tuition, supervised study, exercise or project work
Full written evidence or a student certificate will be required along with proof of date of birth

Student Nurses
- Attending University or Polytechnic as full time students
- On Project 2000 courses
- Undertaking traditional nurse training leading to initial registration on the Nursing Register
Please Note: These student disregard rules are laid down by Government regulations, not by the Council. The Council are not able to change these rules. If there are 2 or more adults in the property who are not disregarded for any reason no exemption / discount will be applicable.
Account or property reference (if known)
Full name of applicant *

First NameLast Name
Full residential address of applicant *

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

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Postal Code
Date from which you wish to claim the discount / exemption

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How many adults have their main residence in the property?
Full name(s) of student(s):
Are there any residents aged under 18 years old?

YesNo
If yes, what are their full names and their dates of birth?
Please ensure that copies of all Council Tax exemption certificates are enclosed with your application form. These are obtained from your college or university (a certificate of enrolment/ registration is unacceptable).

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Phone Number

Area CodePhone Number
Email*
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We are trying to reduce how much paper we use and hope you will help us to go paper free. This means that if you contact us by email or provide us with an email address we will set your council tax account up so that in future your bill and all other correspondence from this department will be sent to you by email. Do you wish to receive your bills by email?*

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Declaration: By submitting this form I agree to the best of my knowledge and belief that all the information I have given on this application is true and complete in all respects. I authorise the council to make any enquiries they wish to verify the information. Personal data is collected and processed in accordance with data protection law.

I agree that Malvern Hills District Council can use my personal data for the purpose of processing the Application for Council Tax student disregard or class N exemption, I understand my data may be shared with other departments within the council for the purposes of processing my application. For further information about how your data is managed please refer to the privacy notice on our website.

You must notify the council as soon as these circumstances change. You acknowledge that failure to do so could result in a penalty being imposed.
Full Name*

First NameLast Name
Date*

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Application for Council Tax student disregard or class N exemption

Full-time students

Under 20 and undertaking qualifying course of education

Student Nurses