Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 in the following respects—
they restrict the circumstances in which a person is to be treated as liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling (regulation 2);
they provide that, with specified exceptions, a person is to be treated as not liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling where he is in a residential care home or nursing home (regulation 3).
The report of the Social Security Advisory Committee dated December 1990 on the proposals to make these Regulations together with the statement showing the extent to which the Regulations give effect to them and, in so far as they do not give effect to them, the reasons why not are contained in Command Paper No. 1385 published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.