56.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and to regulation 62(13) to (15) (renewal claims) any person by whom or in respect of whom a claim for council tax benefit is made and who is otherwise entitled to that benefit shall be so entitled from the benefit week following the date on which that claim is made or is treated as made.
(2) Where a person is otherwise entitled to council tax benefit and becomes liable for the first time for an appropriate authority’s council tax in respect of a dwelling of which he is a resident in the benefit week in which his claim is made or is treated as made, he shall be so entitled from that benefit week.