{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/100",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Categories of dwelling",
  "text": "(1) The categories of dwelling for which the Executive is required to determine a local housing allowance in accordance with regulation 3(2) are—\n(a) a dwelling where the tenant has the exclusive use of only one bedroom and where the tenancy provides for him to share the use of one or more of—\n(i) a kitchen;\n(ii) a bathroom;\n(iii) a toilet, or\n(iv) a room suitable for living in;\n(b) a dwelling where the tenant (together with his partner where he has one) has the exclusive use of only one bedroom and exclusive use of a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a room suitable for living in;\n(c) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only 2 bedrooms;\n(d) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only 3 bedrooms;\n(e) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only 4 bedrooms;\n(f) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only 5 bedrooms.\n(2) In—\n(a) sub-paragraph (1)(b) “partner” has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations;\n(b) sub-paragraph (1)(c) to (f) “bedroom” means a bedroom, except for a bedroom which the tenant shares with any person other than—\n(i) a member of his household;\n(ii) a non-dependant of the tenant (within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations), or\n(iii) a person who pays rent to the tenant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 1(1) substituted (2.4.2012) by The Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. 2012/157), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. modified (28.1.2021) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/14), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/100/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:37:24.737408+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."
}