Part IClaims for and Payments and General Administration of Benefit

Community charge benefits etc.

7Relationship between F1community charge benefits and other benefits

(1)

Regulations may provide for a claim for one relevant benefit to be treated, either in the alternative or in addition, as a claim for any other relevant benefit that may be prescribed.

F2(2)

Regulations may provide for treating a payment made or right conferred by virtue of regulations—

F3(a)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b)

under section 6(l)(r) to (t) above,

as made or conferred on account of any relevant benefit that is subsequently awarded or paid.

(3)

For the purposes of F4subsection (1) above relevant benefits are—

(a)

any benefit to which section 5 above applies; F5and

(b)

F6council tax benefit.