The Child Benefit, Child Support and Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Transitional provision relating to applications for review

48.  Where an applicant for a review of a decision relating to child benefit—

(a) makes his application on or before 7th October 1997; and

(b) in respect of any week or weeks prior to 7th April 1997 but no more than 26 weeks before the date of the application referred to in paragraph (a) of this regulation (“the relevant period”), would have satisfied the conditions, as were then in force, in regulation 2(2) of the Child Benefit Rates Regulations relating to an increase in the weekly rate of child benefit; and

(c) was not in receipt of an increase in the weekly rate of child benefit under regulation 2(2) of those Regulations in respect of the relevant period,

that application for review shall be treated, in addition, as if it were a claim for an increase in the weekly rate of child benefit under regulation 2(2) of those Regulations in respect of the relevant period.