Regulation 4 Savings

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg.4(1) amended by Housing Benefit (General) 1997 reg.2(3)(a)
reg.4(2) replaced (by reg.4(2)(2A)(2B) by Housing Benefit (General) 1997 reg.2(3)(b)
reg. 4(1) words substituted by Social Security (Welfare to Work) 1998 reg. 12(a)
reg. 4(2AB)(2AC) inserted by Social Security (Welfare to Work) 1998 reg. 12(b)
reg. 4(2B) words added by Social Security (Welfare to Work) 1998 reg. 12(c)
reg. 4(2AD)-(2AF) inserted by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Abolition of Benefit Periods) 2003 reg. 23
reg. 4(2A) words omitted by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) 2004 reg. 31(a)
reg. 4(2B) words inserted by Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods) 2004 reg. 31(b)

(1)

Regulation 3(2)(c) and (d) of these Regulations shall not have effect in the case of a claimant for housing benefit to whom paragraph (2) applies.

(2)

This paragraph applies to a claimant—

(a)

who is not a single claimant;

(b)

who is aged less than 25 and is not a young individual; or

(c)

who is aged 60 or over,

who makes a further claim for housing benefit under regulation 72(12) to (14) of the principal Regulations, where he has been continuously entitled to and in receipt of housing benefit in respect of the same dwelling for a benefit period beginning before 6th October 1997, which included an addition by virtue of paragraph (4) or (5) of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations as they had effect on 5th October 1997 and for this purpose “benefit period” has the same meaning as in regulation 66 of the principal Regulations.

(3)

Regulation 3(3) of these Regulations shall not have effect in the case of a claimant to whom regulation 10 of the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (saving provision) applies.