{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-community-charge-rebates-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-60.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/60",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which claims need not be made",
  "text": "An appropriate authority may modify the provisions of regulation 59 (time and manner in which claims are to be made) so that, notwithstanding that a person has not made a claim for housing benefit in accordance with that regulation, where–\n(a) at any time in the period from 23rd November 1988 to 31st March 1989 that person is in receipt of housing benefit in the form of a rate rebate, rent rebate or rent allowance, and\n(b) the appropriate authority consider that they have sufficient information to determine whether he and any partner he may have will be entitled to housing benefit in the form of a community charge rebate from 1st April 1989,\nhe shall be treated as having made a claim for community charge rebate in respect of himself and any such partner for a period beginning on that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 60 in force at 23.11.1988, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1890/regulation/60",
    "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."
}