{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-53.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1321",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/53",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Date on which entitlement is to begin",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) and to regulation 60(15) to (17) (renewal claims) any person by whom or in respect of whom a claim for community charge benefit is made and who is otherwise entitled to that benefit shall be so entitled from the benefit week following the date on which that claim is made or is treated as made.\n(2) Where a person is otherwise entitled to community charge benefit and—\n(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\n(b) ceases to be a registered student; or\n(c) his partner ceases to be a registered student; or\n(d) acquires a partner or acquires a new partner,\nif 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.\n(3) Where a person, who is otherwise entitled to community charge benefit, becomes liable for a collective community charge contribution on account of his residence in premises in respect of which a collective community charge is payable, he and any partner he may have who also satisfies the provisions of this paragraph shall be so entitled—\n(a) in a case where—\n(i) he becomes liable for a contribution within the area of the appropriate authority either on a day prior to which he was not liable for a personal community charge or a collective community charge contribution in the area of that authority, or on a day on which he ceases to be a registered student, and\n(ii) his claim for benefit is made in the benefit week in which his liability arises or in which he ceases to be a registered student,\nfrom the day on which his liability for that contribution arises;\n(b) in any other case, from the day on which his claim for benefit is made.\n(4) Where a person’s claim is treated as made on a date determined in accordance with paragraph (20) of regulation 60, he shall be entitled to community charge benefit from the benefit week in which the claim is treated as made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(1) substituted (1.4.1990) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/835), regs. 1(1), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 53(2) substituted (1.10.1990) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1773), regs. 1(1), 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 53(3) substituted (1.10.1990) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/1773), regs. 1(1), 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 53(4) added (1.4.1990) by The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/835), regs. 1(1), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 53 in force at 1.4.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1321/regulation/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:44.176575+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}