{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/587",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Backdated payments",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where—\n(a) during the relevant year an authority has, under paragraph (15) of regulation 72 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, paragraph (18) of regulation 59 of the Scottish Regulations or paragraph (7) of article 2 of the Community Charge Benefits (Transitional) Order 1989 (time and manner in which claims are to be made), treated any claim for a rebate or allowance as made on a day earlier than that on which it is made; and\n(b) any part of that authority’s housing benefit qualifying expenditure is attributable to such earlier period,\nfor the purposes of article 4(1)(b)(ii), the appropriate amount for the relevant year in respect of such part shall be 25 per cent. of the housing benefit qualifying expenditure so attributable.\n(2) This article shall not apply in a case to which article 9 applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1322."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/587/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:48:30.853395+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."
}