8.—(1) A local authority need not consider a fund application made by or on behalf of a person who has made another fund application within the previous 28 days.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where—
(a)the second application is different in its nature from the first application;
(b)no decision was taken on the first application; or
(c)it appears to the authority that the circumstances of the person by or on whose behalf the applications were made have changed in a relevant respect.