Consequential Amendments to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations
12.—(1) The Council Tax Benefit Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation (which are all consequential upon regulation 11 above).
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1) after the entry relating to “qualifying person” there shall be inserted the following entry —
““relevant authority” has the meaning given to it in regulation 62B(2)”.
(3) In regulation 61 (who may claim), the following paragraph shall be added at the end —
“(7) In its application to regulation 62B, references in this regulation to “appropriate authority” shall be read as including references to the “relevant authority”.”.
(4) In regulation 62 (time and manner in which claims are to be made) in paragraph (1), at the beginning, there shall be inserted the words “Subject to regulation 62B”.
(5) In regulation 62 (evidence and information) the following paragraph shall be added at the end —
“(7) In its application to regulation 62B, references in this regulation to “appropriate authority” shall be read as including references to the “relevant authority”.”.
(6) In regulation 65 (duty to notify changes of circumstances) —
(a)in paragraph (1) for the words “paragraphs (2) and (4)”, there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (2), (4) and (5)”; and
(b)after paragraph (4), there shall be added the following paragraph —
“(5) Where a person resides in a postcode district identified in Part I or II of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations 1999, he may notify the change of circumstances to any office of a relevant authority displaying the One logo.”.
(7) In regulation 84(3) (recoverable excess benefit) after the words “acting as such” there shall be inserted the words “or a person providing services to either Department”.