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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/216",
  "legislation_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/discretionary-financial-assistance-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Limit on the amount of the discretionary housing payment that may be made",
  "text": "The amount of a discretionary housing payment (calculated as a weekly sum) shall not exceed, in a case where the need for further financial assistance arises as a consequence of the liability to make periodical payments in respect of the dwelling which a person occupies as his home, an amount equal to the amount of the aggregate of the payments specified in regulation 10(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (rent) less the aggregate of the amounts referred to in paragraph (3)(b) of that regulation, calculated on a weekly basis in accordance with regulations 69 and 70 (calculation of weekly amounts and rent and rate-free periods) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 2.7.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 10(1) was amended by regulation 5 of S.R. 1988 No. 424"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (3) was substituted by regulation 3(a) of S.R. 2001 No. 79"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Regulation 69 was amended by regulation 4 of S.R. 1996 No. 115"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/216",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/154",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for words",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/103",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance) (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/103",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance) (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2008/103",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance) (Miscellaneous and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2017/143",
      "affecting_title": "The Discretionary Financial Assistance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2018/92",
      "affecting_title": "The Universal Credit (Persons Required to Provide Information, Miscellaneous Amendments and Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/216/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:23.867300+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."
}