The Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 60 of the Community Charge Regulations

4.  In regulation 60 of the Community Charge Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made)—

(a) in paragraph (6) for the words “paragraphs (12) and (13)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (12), (13), (19) and (20)”;

(b) after paragraph (18) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

“(19) Where—

(a) on or after 1st April 1990 a claimant satisfies the capital condition in section 22(6) of the Act for community charge benefit and he would not have satisfied that condition had the amount prescribed under regulation 27 (capital limit) been £8,000; and

(b) a claim for that benefit is received from him at the appropriate social security office or designated office not later than 27th May 1990,

the claim shall be treated as made on the date determined in accordance with paragraph (20).

(20) For the purposes of paragraph (19), where—

(a) the claimant satisfies the other conditions of entitlement to community charge benefit in the benefit week in which he satisfies the capital condition, the date shall be the date on which he satisfied that condition;

(b) the claimant does not satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to community charge benefit in the benefit week in which he satisfies the capital condition, the date shall be the first day of the benefit week in which he satisfies the conditions of entitlement to that benefit.”.