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

• Citation: S.I. 1990/835
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Charge Benefits (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st April 1990.

(2) In these Regulations “the Community Charge Regulations ” means the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulations 24, 27 and 35 of the Community Charge Regulations

In regulations 24(1), 27 and 35(1) of the Community Charge Regulations (capital treated as income, capital limit and calculation of tariff income from capital) for the figure “£8,000” there shall be substituted the figure “£16,000”.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 53 of the Community Charge Regulations

In regulation 53 of the Community Charge Regulations (date on which entitlement is to begin)—

(a) in paragraph (1) for the words “paragraphs (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (2) to (4)”;

(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph—

(4) Where a person’s claim is treated as made on a date determined in accordance with paragraph (20) of regulation 60, he shall be entitled to community charge benefit from the benefit week in which the claim is treated as made.

Section 4 Amendment of regulation 60 of the Community Charge Regulations

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.