{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-4-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1B to the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 1B to the principal Regulations (excluded tenancies)—\n(a) in paragraph 2(3)(d) after “young individual” there shall be inserted “or person to whom regulation 11(3B) applies”;\n(b) in paragraph 6(2) for the words from “if there” to the end of the paragraph, there shall be substituted the following—\n“if—\n(a) there has been an increase in rent since the disposal occurred, and\n(b) the claimant occupies a dwelling larger than is reasonably required by him and any others who occupy that dwelling (including any non-dependant of his and any person paying rent to him), or\n(c) the rent payable for that dwelling is unreasonably high.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(a) in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(b) in operation at 7.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 7.4.1997, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1B was inserted by regulation 15 of S.R. 1996 No. 111 and amended by regulation 9 of S.R. 1996 No. 181"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 2(3)(d) was inserted by regulation 9 of S.R. 1996 No. 181"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/170",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/170/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:29:30.750819+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."
}