{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1995/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1995/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/872",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1995",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amount of council tax benefit subsidy",
  "text": "The amount of an appropriate authority’s council tax benefit subsidy for the relevant Year—\n(a) for the purposes of section 140(2) of the Act (subsidy in respect of council tax benefit) shall be the amount or total of the amounts calculated in accordance with article 16;\n(b) for the purposes of section 140(5) of the Act (subsidy in respect of the costs of administering council tax benefit) may include an additional sum in respect of the costs of administering council tax benefit calculated in accordance with Schedules 1 and 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 140(2) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 9, paragraph 21(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 140(5) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 9, paragraph 21(5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/872/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:17.259395+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}