Regulation 78 Person to whom benefit is to be paidI1

Subject to regulation 81 (payment on death) and paragraphs (2) to (4), payment of any community charge benefits to which a person is entitled shall be made to that person.

Where a person other than a person who is entitled to a community charge benefit made the claim and that first person is a person referred to in regulation 59(3), (4) or (6) (persons appointed to act for a person unable to act), benefit may be paid to that person.

F1Except in cases to which paragraph (4) applies, community charge benefit, to which a person is entitled on account of his liability to pay a collective community charge contribution, may be allowed or paid on behalf of the person entitled direct to the charge payer to whom the relevant contribution is owed, in such manner as the appropriate authority may decide, where the person concerned has requested or consented to the benefit to which he is entitled being allowed or paid to that charge payer.

Where payments of community charge benefit to which a person is entitled on account of his liability to pay a collective community charge contribution have not yet been made, the appropriate authority may, where —

pay the outstanding benefit to the person to whom the relevant contribution is owed without obtaining the consent of the person who is liable for that contribution.