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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/566",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1989",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.\nThey provide for a claimant’s eligible rent not to exceed the rent fixed by a rent assessment committee and for authorities to have regard to determinations made by rent officers in determining eligible rent (regulations 2(a) and (b) and 3(c)); and prohibit an authority from reducing eligible rent for a period of 12 months from the death of a member of the household (regulation 2(c) and 3(b)).\nThey also provide for payment of a rent allowance to be withheld where a rent officer is denied entry to the dwelling (regulation 5); for an authority to furnish rent officers with information relating to the claimant and his accommodation (regulation 6); and for hearings of a Review Board to be deferred pending a re-determination by a rent officer (regulation 4).\nThese Regulations, except in so far as they are made under the powers in section 51 of the Social Security Act 1986, are made before the expiry of 12 months from the commencement of the provisions under which they are made; they are accordingly exempt by section 61(5) of that Act from reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and have not been so referred.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/566/note",
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  "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."
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