# The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1994, Article 2: Interpretation of Part II


(1) In this Part of this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1982 Act” means the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982;
“allowance” means a rent allowance;
“authority” means a housing or, as the case may be, local authority;
“board and lodging accommodation” means—
(a) accommodation provided for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which are both cooked or prepared and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises; or
(b) accommodation provided in a hotel, guest house, lodging house or some similar establishment,
but it does not include accommodation in a residential care home or nursing home within the meaning of regulation 19(3) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 nor in a hostel within the meaning of regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations;
“housing benefit subsidy” means subsidy under section 135(1) of the Act (rate rebate, rent rebate and rent allowance subsidy payable) and under section 30(1A) of the Social Security Act 1986 (community charge rebate subsidy payable);
“rebate” means a rent rebate excluding, in the case of England and Wales, any Housing Revenue Account rebates;
“relevant date” has the meaning it is given for the purposes of Schedule 6 in paragraph 7 of that Schedule;
“scheme” means the housing benefit scheme as defined in section 123 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987;
“the Rent Officers Order” means the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1990 or, as the case may be, the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Scotland) Order 1990;
“termination date” has the meaning it is given for the purposes of Schedule 6 in paragraph 8 of that Schedule,
and other expressions used in this Order and in the Housing Benefit Regulations shall have the same meanings in this Order as in those Regulations.
(2) In this Part of this Order—
“housing benefit qualifying expenditure” means the total of rebates and allowances granted by the authority during the relevant year, less—
(a) the deductions specified in article 11; and
(b) where, under subsection (8) of section 134 of the Act (arrangements for housing benefit), the authority has modified any part of the scheme administered by it, any amount by which the total of the rebates or allowances which it granted under the scheme during the relevant year exceeds the total of those which it would have granted if the scheme had not been so modified.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/523/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1994/article-2
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