{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/523",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision for the calculation of housing benefit and council tax benefit subsidy payable under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 to authorities administering housing benefit or council tax benefit.\nIt 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 for the year ending 31st March 1994 is calculated (articles 3(a) and 4 to 9 and Schedules 3, 5, 6 and 7), 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, 2, 8, 9, 10 and 11).\nThe Order also makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of rent rebates or allowances (articles 4(3), 10, 11 and 12 and Schedule 4) and for the modification of the provisions for subsidy in respect of payments of housing benefit in excess of entitlement, made under section 32 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and discovered in the relevant year (article 13).\nIn addition, the Order sets out in Part III the manner in which the total figure for the appropriate authority’s subsidy in respect of council tax benefit for the year ending 31st March 1994 is calculated (articles 15(a), 16 and 17), and the manner of calculating the additional sum payable to an appropriate authority in respect of the costs of administering council tax benefit (article 15(b) and Schedules 2, 8, 9, 10 and 11) and makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of community charge and council tax benefits (articles 16(2), 18, 19 and 20 and Schedule 4).\nThis Order does not impose a charge on businesses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/523/note",
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  "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."
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