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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-northern-ireland-2000/schedule-7/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "nia/2000/4",
  "legislation_title": "Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-support-pensions-and-social-security-act-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Regulations may provide for—\n(a) suspending, in whole or in part, any payments of housing benefit;\n(b) the subsequent making, or restoring, in prescribed circumstances of any or all of the payments so suspended.\n(2) Regulations made under sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular, make provision for any case where, in relation to a claim for housing benefit—\n(a) it appears to the relevant authority that an issue arises whether the conditions for entitlement to such a benefit are or were fulfilled;\n(b) it appears to the relevant authority that an issue arises whether a decision as to an award of such a benefit should be revised (under paragraph 3) or superseded (under paragraph 4);\n(c) an appeal is pending against a decision of an appeal tribunal, a Commissioner or a court; or\n(d) it appears to the relevant authority, where an appeal is pending against the decision given by a Commissioner or a court in a different case, that if the appeal were to be determined in a particular way an issue would arise whether the award of housing benefit in the case itself ought to be revised or superseded.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), an appeal against a decision is pending if—\n(a) an appeal against the decision has been brought but not determined;\n(b) an application for leave to appeal against the decision has been made but not determined; or\n(c) the time within which—\n(i) an application for leave to appeal may be made; or\n(ii) an appeal against the decision may be brought,\nhas not expired and the circumstances are such as may be prescribed.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2)(d) the reference to a different case—\n(a) includes a reference to a case involving a different relevant authority; but\n(b) does not include a reference to a case relating to a different benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nia/2007/2",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2000/4/schedule/7/paragraph/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:21:56.554926+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}