{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 52 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 52 of the principal Regulations (date on which entitlement is to begin) for paragraphs (2) and (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—\n“(2) Where a person, who is otherwise entitled to housing benefit,\n(a) becomes liable for an appropriate authority’s personal community charge on a day prior to which he was not liable for that charge or for a collective community charge contribution in the area of that authority, or\n(b) ceases to be a registered student,\nif his claim for housing benefit is made or is treated as made in the benefit week in which he becomes liable for that charge or ceases to be a registered student, he shall be so entitled from that benefit week.\n(3) Where a person, who is otherwise entitled to housing benefit, becomes liable for a collective community charge contribution on account of his residence in premises in respect of which a collective community charge is payable, he shall be so entitled—\n(a) in a case where—\n(i) he becomes liable for a contribution within the area of the appropriate authority either on a day prior to which he was not liable for a personal community charge or a collective community charge contribution in the area of that authority, or on a day on which he ceases to be a registered student, and\n(ii) his claim for benefit is made in the benefit week in which his liability arises or in which he ceases to be a registered student\nfrom the day on which his liability for that contribution arises;\n(b) in any other case, from the day on which his claim for benefit is made.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/972/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:43:27.914292+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."
}