{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1890",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/52",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Date on which entitlement is to begin",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) and to regulation 59(15) to (17) (renewal claims) any person by whom or in respect of whom a claim for housing benefit is made and who is otherwise entitled to that benefit shall be so entitled from the benefit week following the date on which that claim is made or is treated as made.\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": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 52(2)(3) substituted (10.7.1989) by The Housing Benefit (Community Charge Rebates) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/972), regs. 1(1)(a), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 52 in force at 1.4.1989, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1890/regulation/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:44.151213+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."
}