Regulation 6 Amendment of regulation 53 of the principal Regulations

for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

“(2)

Where a person is otherwise entitled to community charge benefit and —

(a)

he or his partner becomes liable for an appropriate authority’s personal community charge on a day prior to which he or his partner was not liable for that charge or for a collective community charge contribution in the area of that authority; or

(b)

ceases to be a registered student; or

(c)

his partner ceases to be a registered student; or

(d)

acquires a partner or acquires a new partner,

if his claim for community charge benefit on behalf of himself and his partner is made or is treated as made in the benefit week in which any of the conditions in the above sub-paragraphs is satisfied, he and his partner shall be so entitled from that benefit week.”;

in paragraph (3) for the words “he shall be so entitled” there shall be substituted the words “he and any partner he may have who also satisfies the provisions of this paragraph shall be so entitled”.