17.Section 4 of the Act provides a power to allow late applications for assistance for each kind of assistance under the 2018 Act – inserting provision in each relevant schedule of the 2018 Act to the effect that if the regulations on assistance contain an application deadline, they may also make provision about the circumstances in which an application made after the deadline may be treated as if it had been made by that deadline. Section 1 of the Act contains equivalent provision for schedule 6A on childhood assistance.