The Council Tax (Deductions from Income Support) Regulations 1993

Circumstances, time of making and termination of deductions

8.—(1) The Secretary of State shall make deductions from income support under regulation 7 only if—

(a) the debtor is entitled to income support throughout any benefit week;

(b) no deductions are being made in respect of the debtor under any other application; and

(c) no payments are being made under regulation 2 of the Community Charge (Deductions from Income Support) (Scotland) Regulations 1989 or regulation 2 of the Community Charge (Deductions from Income Support) (No.2) Regulations 1990.

(2) The Secretary of State shall make deductions from income support by reference to the times at which payment of income support is made to the debtor(1).

(3) The Secretary of State shall cease making deductions from income support if—

(a) there is no longer sufficient entitlement to income support to enable him to make the deduction;

(b) an authority withdraws its application for deductions to be made; or

(c) the debt in respect of which he was making the deductions is discharged.

(4) Where at any time during which the Secretary of State is making deductions in respect of an application he receives one or more further applications in respect of the debtor from whom the deductions are being made, he shall refer those further applications to the adjudication officer in accordance with the following order of priority, namely, the one bearing the earliest date shall be referred first and each subsequent application shall be referred, one at a time and in date order, only after deductions under any earlier application have ceased.

(5) Payments of sums deducted from income support by the Secretary of State under these Regulations shall be made to the authority concerned, as far as is practicable, at intervals not exceeding 13 weeks.

(6) Where the whole of the amount to which the application relates has been paid, the authority concerned shall, so far as is practicable, give notice of that fact within 21 days to the Secretary of State.

(7) The Secretary of State shall notify the debtor in writing of the total sums deducted by him under any application—

(a) on receipt of a written request for such information from the debtor; or

(b) on the termination of deductions made under any such application.

(1)

See Schedule 7 to S.I. 1987/1968.