Regulation 19 Transitional provision
A claim for housing benefit in the form of a rate rebate in respect of a period falling before 1st April 1990 may be made on or after that date.
The appropriate authority may treat a claim for community charge benefit as being, in addition, a claim for housing benefit in the form of a rate rebate in respect of a period falling before 1st April 1990.
Where–
the claimant makes a claim which is, or is treated as, a claim for housing benefit in the form of a rate rebate under paragraph (1) or (2) above in respect of a period ending not later than 31st March 1990; and
he proves that there was good cause for his failure to make that claim throughout the period between any date falling on or before 31st March 1990 and the date on which the claim was or was treated as made,
his claim shall be treated, subject to section 165A of the Social Security Act 1975f1 (52 week limit on entitlement before the date of claim), as if it were made on the first day of that earlier period from which he can prove good cause.
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1975 c. 14; this section was substituted by paragraph 87 of Schedule 10 to the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50) and is applied to housing benefit by paragraph 48 of Schedule 10 to that Act.