Article 4 Further provision for initial claims

a person is liable for a personal community charge from the relevant date,

a claim for community charge benefits in respect of that charge is received by the designated office of the appropriate authority either not more than 56 days after the relevant date or, where the claimant does not receive his first community charge demand notice stating the payment he is required to make until after the relevant date, not more than 56 days from the date he receives that notice, and

in a case where there has been a delay in issuing the demand notice, the delay is not in consequence of a failure by the claimant to notify the community charges registration officer that he is liable for that charge,