{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1999/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1999/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2734",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "In paragraph (1A) of regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (requirement to refer to rent officers)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for the word “they” there shall be substituted the words “those payments”;\n(b) for sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(b) where those payments include any of the service charges specified in paragraph (1ZA)—\n(i) that such charges are included; and\n(ii) the amount of those charges which the appropriate authority has determined as—\n(aa) ineligible to be met by housing benefit in accordance with regulation 10(3) and Schedule 1 (ineligible service charges); and\n(bb) eligible to be met by housing benefit in accordance with regulation 10(3), that Schedule and Schedule 1B (service charges for claimants in supported accommodation).”;\n(c) sub-paragraph (c) shall be omitted; and\n(d) after paragraph (1A) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(1ZA) Charges in respect of the following are the service charges to which sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1A) applies—\n(a) the cleaning of rooms and windows (except services specified in sub-paragraphs (a)(iv)(aa) or (bb) of paragraph (1) of Schedule 1 (ineligible service charges));\n(b) the provision of an emergency alarm system;\n(c) medical expenses;\n(d) the provision of nursing care or personal care; and\n(e) general counselling or other support services.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 12A was inserted by S.I. 1990/546, and paragraph (1A) was inserted by S.I. 1995/2868."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (c) was added to regulation 12A by S.I. 1998/563."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2734/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:39.814726+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."
}