Liability to make rent and other payments to a trustU.K.
7.—(1) A claimant is to be treated as not liable to make rent payments where the liability to make them is owed to a trustee of a trust and the trustees or beneficiaries of the trust include—
(a)the claimant;
(b)if the claimant is a member of a couple, the other member;
(c)a child or qualifying young person for whom a person who falls within paragraph (a) or (b) is responsible; or
(d)a close relative of any of the above who lives in the accommodation with the claimant.
(2) A claimant who is treated under sub-paragraph (1) as not liable to make rent payments to the trustee of a trust is also to be treated as not liable to make service charge payments where the liability to make the service charge payments is to—
(a)a trustee of the same trust; or
(b)a trustee of another trust of which the trustees or beneficiaries include any of the persons listed in sub-paragraph (1)(a) to (d).