PART 2COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT

Consequential amendments to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations

7.  The Council Tax Benefit Regulations shall be further amended in accordance with the following paragraphs —

(a)in regulation 8 (applicable amounts) for the words “and 10” to “patients)” there shall be substituted the words “, 10 and Schedule A1 (polygamous marriages, patients, and treatment of claims for council tax benefit by refugees)”;

(b)in regulation 9 (polygamous marriages) for the words “regulation 10 (patients)” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 10 and Schedule A1 (patients and treatment of claims for council tax benefit by refugees)”;

(c)in paragraph (1) of regulation 10 (patients) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for council tax benefit by refugees),”;

(d)in regulation 62(1) (time and manner in which claims are to be made) at the end there shall be added the words “or paragraph 4 of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for council tax benefit by refugees)”;

(e)in regulation 63(1) (evidence and information) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 4 of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for council tax benefit by refugees),”;

(f)in regulation 66(2) (who is to make a determination) —

(i)in sub-paragraph (a) at the end there shall be added the words “or paragraph 1 of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for council tax benefit by refugees)”;

(ii)in sub-paragraph (b) after the words “regulation 63” there shall be inserted the words “or paragraph 4 of Schedule A1”.