{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1217",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Minimum amount",
  "text": "Until such time as the aggregate of the authorities' total of supplementary amounts calculated under paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 equals the aggregate of the amounts specified in sub-paragraphs (a), (b)(i), (b)(ii) and (b)(iii) of paragraph 6, the calculations set out in paragraphs 6 and 7 shall, subject to the modifications set out below, continue to apply to calculate the total of supplementary amounts for those authorities to whom neither paragraph 5 nor 7 has applied, and for that purpose—\n(a) J shall apply as if the total of supplementary amounts were the amount calculated under paragraph 6, or, if by virtue of this paragraph there has been more than one calculation, the last amount calculated under that paragraph in respect of the appropriate authority;\n(b) K shall apply as if the amount to be deducted to determine the balance of the total amount available were the aggregate of the total of supplementary amounts for relevant authorities to whom, in the calculation under paragraphs 6 and 7, or, if there has been more than one such calculation under those paragraphs, the last such calculation, paragraph 7 applied; and\n(c) L shall apply as if the total of supplementary amounts were the total of all supplementary amounts calculated under paragraph 6 or, if by virtue of this paragraph there has been more than one calculation, the last such calculation in respect of all authorities to whom paragraph 7 did not apply on that calculation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1217/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:22.313646+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."
}