{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 59 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 59 of the principal Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made) after paragraph (14) the following paragraphs shall be inserted—\n“(14A) Where a person becomes liable to pay the personal community charge of an appropriate authority but has yet to be shown in the authority’s community charges register as liable to pay that charge, he or his partner may nevertheless claim housing benefit in respect of that charge in advance of registration and, if the authority is of the opinion that, unless there is a change of circumstances, that person will satisfy all the conditions of entitlement for housing benefit from the day on which he is shown in the register as liable to pay that charge (the day of registration), the authority may treat that claim as having been made either on the date of claim or on the day of registration, whichever is the later, and award benefit accordingly.\n(14B) Where a person—\n(a) is registered in the community charges register of two or more appropriate authorities as liable on the same day or days to pay the personal community charges of those authorities in respect of those days, and\n(b) appeals against any one or more entry,\nif, within 14 days of being notified of the determination of the appeal, he claims housing benefit from the authority to which it is determined he is liable to pay a personal community charge for the days concerned and that authority is not the authority to which a charge for those days was originally due then, provided the authority to which it is determined he is liable to pay the charge is satisfied that that person was entitled to housing benefit for any of the days to which the determination applies, his claim shall be treated as made on the first day in respect of which his entitlement arose.”.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}