# The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1996, Article 2: Interpretation of Part II


(1) In this Part of this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
“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;
“development corporation” has the meaning ascribed to it in section 2 of the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;
“housing benefit subsidy” means subsidy under section 135(1) of the Act (rate rebate, rent rebate and allowance subsidy payable) and under section 30(1A) of the Social Security Act 1986;
“rebate” means a rent rebate excluding, in the case of England and Wales, any Housing Revenue Account rebates;
“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, the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Scotland) Order 1990, the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1995 or the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Scotland) Order 1995, as the case may be:
“the Rent Officers Order 1990” means the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1990 or the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Scotland) Order 1990, as the case may be;
and other expressions used in this Part of 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, including any payments under regulation 91 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (payments on account of a rent allowance), lawfully granted by the authority during the relevant year, less—
(a) the deduction, if any, calculated for that authority in article 6;
(b) any allowances to which paragraph (5) of article 8 or paragraph 7 of Schedule 6, as the case may be, apply;
(c) any rebates to which paragraph (4) of article 9 applies;
(d) the deductions specified in article 11, and
(e) 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/1996/1217/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1996/article-2
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