{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/181",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 11 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 11 of the principal Regulations (maximum rent) —\n(a) in paragraph (2) after “local reference rent” there shall be inserted “or a single room rent”;\n(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(3A) In the case of a young individual, where the Executive has determined a single room rent, the maximum rent shall not exceed that single room rent.”;\n(c) in paragraph (4) for “limit specified in paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted “limits specified in paragraphs (3) and (3A)”;\n(d) in paragraph (5) for “limit specified in paragraph (3)” there shall be substituted “limits specified in paragraphs (3) and (3A)”;\n(e) in paragraph (11) at the end there shall be added “except in a case where the maximum rent has been determined in accordance with paragraph (3A)”;\n(f) in paragraph (16) after the definition of “relevant rent” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““single room rent” means the rent determined by the Executive under paragraph 4A of Schedule 1A;”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 7.10.1996, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 11 was substituted by regulation 7 of S.R. 1996 No. 111"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (11) was added by regulation 7 of S.R. 1996 No. 111"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 4A is inserted by regulation 8 of these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/181",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/181/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:16.484697+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."
}