4. In regulation 64 of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006(1) (time and manner in which claims are to be made) for paragraph (11) substitute—
“(11) Except in the case of a claim made by a person from abroad, where the claimant is not entitled to housing benefit in the benefit week immediately following the date of his claim but the relevant authority is of the opinion that unless there is a change of circumstances he will be entitled to housing benefit for a period beginning not later than the seventeenth benefit week following the date on which the claim is made, the relevant authority may treat the claim as made on a date in the benefit week immediately preceding the first benefit week of that period of entitlement and award benefit accordingly.”.
S.I. 2006/214. Regulation 64 was amended by S.I. 2006/2967.