{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1004",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-subsidy-order-1997",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part III",
  "text": "(1) In this Part of this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“council tax benefit subsidy” means subsidy under section 140 of the Act;\n“the Community Charge Benefits Regulations” means the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989;\n“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992;\n“excess benefit” includes excess benefits under the Community Charge Benefits Regulations as well as excess benefit under the Council Tax Benefit Regulations,\nand other expressions used in this Part of this Order and in the Council Tax Benefit Regulations shall have the same meanings in this Order as in those Regulations.\n(2) In this part of this Order “council tax benefit qualifying expenditure” means the total of council tax benefit, including any extended payments, lawfully granted by the appropriate authority during the relevant year, less—\n(a) the deductions specified in article 19; and\n(b) where, under subsection (6) of section 139 of the Act (arrangements for council tax benefit), the appropriate authority has modified any part of the scheme administered by it, any amount by which the total of the council tax benefit 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 140 was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 9, paragraph 21, but the section as originally enacted continues in force by virtue of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (Community Charge Benefits) Savings and Transitional Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/232)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1321, amended by S.I. 1990/834, 835, 1549, 1657, 1773, 1991/234, 849, 1599, 2742, 2910, 1992/432, 1026, 1101, 1326, 1385, 2148 and 1993/1105."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/1814, amended by S.I. 1993/349, 688, 963, 1150, 1249, 1540, 2118, 1994/470, 578, 1925, 2137 and 3061, 1995/511, 559, 560, 625, 626, 1339, 1742, 2303, 3282, 1996/30, 462, 1510, 2006 and 2432."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 139(6) allows modification of the council tax benefit scheme so as to provide for the disregard of income of a war disablement pension or a war widow’s pension; it was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 9, paragraph 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1004/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:16.506195+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."
}