Regulation 2 Persons to be treated as having made an application for a council tax reduction

(1)

A person who is resident in a dwelling in England and who falls within paragraph (2) is to be treated as having made an application for a reduction under the relevant billing authority’s scheme.

(2)

The persons referred to in paragraph (1) are any person who on or after the date these Regulations come into force—

(a)

has made a claim for council tax benefit which has not been determined;

(b)

is in receipt of council tax benefit; or

(c)

is a person whose payments of council tax benefit are suspended under regulation 11 or 13 of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2001/1002. Relevant amendments were made by S.I. 2006/217, 2008/2683 and 2008/2667.