Paragraph 45 Date on which entitlement beginsI1

Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any person by whom or in respect of whom an application for a reduction under an authority’s scheme is made and who is otherwise entitled to that reduction is so entitled from the reduction week following the date on which that application is made or is treated as made.

Where a person is otherwise entitled to a reduction under an authority’s scheme and becomes liable for the first time for the authority’s council tax in respect of a dwelling of which he is a resident in the reduction week in which his application is made or is treated as made, he shall be so entitled from that reduction week.