Regulation 2 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

In the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006^f1 after regulation 91 (time and manner of payment) insert—

“Cases in which payments to a housing authority are to take the form of a rent allowance

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(1)

Where the occupier of a dwelling is liable to make payments in respect of that dwelling to a housing authority as a result of the making of an order specified in paragraph (2), housing benefit in respect of those payments shall take the form of a rent allowance.

(2)

The orders specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—

(a)

a management control order made in accordance with section 74 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004^f2;

(b)

an interim management order made in accordance with section 102 of the Housing Act 2004^f3;

(c)

a final management order made in accordance with section 113 of that Act;

(d)

an interim empty dwelling management order made in accordance with section 133 of that Act; and

(e)

a final empty dwelling management order made in accordance with section 136 of that Act.”.