Back-dating of applications: persons who are not pensioners
4.—(1) Where an applicant who is a person who is not a pensioner—
(a)makes an application under an authority’s scheme which includes (or which the applicant subsequently requests should include) a period before the application is made; and
(b)from a day in that period, up to the date the applicant made the application (or subsequently requested that the application should include a past period), the applicant had continuous good cause for failing to make an application (or request that the application should include that period),
the application is to be treated as made on the date determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).
(2) That date is the latest of—
(a)the first day from which the applicant had continuous good cause;
(b)the day 3 months before the date the application was made;
(c)the day 3 months before the date when the applicant requested that the application should include a past period.