{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-general-regulations-1992/regulation-78.json",
  "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/78",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Person to whom benefit is to be paid",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 81 (payment on death) and paragraph (2), any payment of council tax benefit under regulation 77(1)(b) shall be made to that person.\n(2) Where a person other than a person who is entitled to council tax benefit made the claim and that first person is a person acting pursuant to an appointment under regulation 61(3) (persons appointed to act for a person unable to act) or is treated as having been so appointed by virtue of regulation 61(5), benefit may be paid to that person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 78 in force at 1.4.1993, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1814/regulation/78",
    "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."
}