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The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987

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Time and manner of making notifications, requests or representations

78.—(1) Any notice or other document that is to be given or sent to an authority shall be deemed to have been given or sent on the day it is received at the designated office.

(2) Any notice or other document that is to be given or sent by an authority to any person shall be deemed to have been given or sent if sent by post to that person’s last known or notified address, on the date it was posted.

(3) The times specified by regulations 79(2) (review of determinations), 80 (requests for statement of reasons) and 81 (further review of determinations) for making a request for a statement or representations may be extended for special reasons, by the appropriate authority or where relevant a Review Board, even though the time specified may have already expired.

(4) Any application for an extension of time shall be in writing, shall be sent or delivered to the designated office and shall be determined by the appropriate authority or where relevant decided by a Review Board.

(5) There shall be no review or further review of a determination or decision of a Review Board under paragraph (3) or (4).

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