Regulation 5 Benefit periods

Where a person is entitled to a rebate or allowance immediately before the end of the benefit period which applies in his case and that period expires on or after 1st March 1988 but before the relevant date, the appropriate authority may, if it has reason to think that that person will be entitled to a rebate or allowance under an old scheme until the relevant date, extend the benefit period so that it expires on the relevant date.

In the case of any person to whom regulation 3(1) of these Regulations applies, and in relation to whom a qualifying certificate is not in force, the appropriate authority may treat that person's benefit period under an old scheme as continuing until the date on which it would have ended if it would, but for the termination of that old scheme, have ended on or after the relevant date if that authority has reason to think that the person will be entitled to housing benefit under the new scheme until the end of that benefit period.