# The Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989, Regulation 55: Date on which benefit period is to end

Extent: E+W+S

The benefit period shall end with the last day of the final week of that period, determined by the appropriate authority in accordance with regulation 54(2) to (4) (benefit period) unless—
(a) the claimant is a person on income support and he ceases to be so entitled except in cases to which sub-paragraph (b) refers, when the benefit period will end with the last day of the benefit week in which the cessation of his entitlement takes effect in accordance with regulation 56 (date when change of circumstances is to have effect);
(b) the claimant is a person on income support and he ceases to be so entitled on account of an award of benefit under the Social Security Act, when the benefit period will end at the end of the benefit week in which the payment of income support ceases; ...
(bb) the claimant has given notice to the appropriate authority of any of the changes of circumstances to which regulation 60(4) refers, when his benefit period and, where community charge benefit is payable by that authority to his partner, his partner’s benefit period shall end with the day immediately preceding the day on which the change of circumstances takes effect in accordance with regulation 56; or
(c) the appropriate authority determines that some other change of circumstances has occurred which should result in the benefit period ending with an earlier week, when the benefit period will end with the last day of that week.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1321/regulation/55 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-charge-benefits-general-regulations-1989/regulation-55
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