# The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1991, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order makes provision for the calculation of housing benefit and community charge benefit subsidy payable under the Social Security Act 1986 to authorities administering housing benefit and community charge benefit.
It sets out in Part II the manner in which the total figure for an authority’s housing benefit subsidy in respect of rent rebates and allowances and, in Scotland, community charge rebates, for the year ending 31st March 1991 is calculated (articles 3(a) and 4 to 11 and Schedules 3, 4, 5 and 6), and the manner of calculating the additional sum payable to an authority in respect of the costs of administering housing benefit (article 3(b) and Schedules 1, 7, 8, 9 and 10).
The Order also makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of rent rebates or allowances (articles 12 and 13) and for the modification of the provisions for subsidy in respect of payments of housing benefit in excess of entitlement, under section 32 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and discovered in the relevant year (article 14).
In addition, the Order sets out in Part III the manner in which the total figure for the appropriate authority’s subsidy in respect of community charge benefit for the year ending 31st March 1991 is calculated (articles 16(a) and 17 to 19), and the manner of calculating the additional sum payable to an appropriate authority in respect of the costs of administering community charge benefit (article 16(b) and Schedules 2, 7, 8, 9 and 10); and it makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of community charge benefit (articles 20 and 21).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/587/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-community-charge-benefit-subsidy-order-1991/note
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