# The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1990, Regulation 10: Amendment of regulation 60 of the principal Regulations


In regulation 60 of the principal Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made) —
(a) for paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —
“(4) Where in the course of a benefit period —
(a) a claimant’s partner becomes liable for the appropriate authority’s personal community charge or for a collective community charge contribution in that authority’s area on a day prior to which the partner was not so liable; or
(b) a claimant or his partner ceases to be a registered student; or
(c) a claimant acquires a partner or acquires a new partner,
and the claimant gives notice of any such change of circumstances at —
(i) either of the offices referred to in paragraph (5)(b), where the claimant or his partner is a person on income support, or
(ii) the designated office in any other case,
the notification may also have effect as a new claim for community charge benefit for both the claimant and his partner.”;
(b) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph —
“(4A) Where both partners give notice in accordance with paragraph (4) the claimant for the purposes of any new claim shall be determined in accordance with regulation 59(1) (claims by couples).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1773/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1990/regulation-10
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