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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006/regulation-78.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/council-tax-benefit-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/78",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Persons to whom benefit is to be paid",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 80 (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 68(3) (persons appointed to act for a person unable to act) or is treated as having been so appointed by virtue of regulation 68(5), benefit may be paid to that person.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/215/regulation/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:38:43.706263+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."
}