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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-56",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1814",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Date on which entitlement is to begin",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to regulation 62(13) to (15) (renewal claims) any person by whom or in respect of whom a claim for council tax 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 council tax benefit and becomes liable for the first time for an appropriate authority’s council tax in respect of a dwelling of which he is a resident in the benefit week in which his claim is made or is treated as made, he shall be so entitled from that benefit week.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 56 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1338",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1605",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals and Discretionary Financial Assistance) (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2001 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2303",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/2303",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:35:39.387743+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."
}