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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/459",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
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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 (Northern Ireland) 1987 (S.R. 1987 No. 461) (“the Housing Benefit Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 amends the meaning of “overpayment” in Part XIII of the Housing Benefit Regulations, and the amendment in paragraph (4) of regulation 3 is consequential to this.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 99 of the Housing Benefit Regulations. Paragraphs (2) and (3) amend the terminology used in respect of overpayments arising in consequence of official error.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 101 of the Housing Benefit Regulations. Paragraph (2) inserts an additional condition in the list of prescribed circumstances that must be satisfied for an overpayment not to be recovered from the person to whom it was paid. Paragraphs (3) to (5) prescribe the person from whom recovery of an overpayment should be made in specified circumstances instead of the person to whom the payment was made.\nRegulation 5 amends regulation 102 of the Housing Benefit Regulations. Paragraph (2) amends the terminology used in respect of an authority administering housing benefit, and paragraphs (3) to (5) insert an additional method of recovery in the case of a claimant who changes his address.\nRegulation 6 amends regulation 104 of the Housing Benefit Regulations to ensure a claimant’s change of address is not treated as being a change of circumstances when calculating housing benefit payable in respect of the overpayment period.\nRegulation 7 amends regulation 105 of the Housing Benefit Regulations to provide for recovery of overpaid housing benefit from benefits paid by Switzerland under Article 4(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1408/71, following the Agreement between the European Community and its Member States and the Swiss Confederation on the free movement of persons, signed at Brussels on 21st June 1999.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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