{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-5-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-5-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/448",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-no-5-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In Schedule 5 to the principal Regulations (capital to be disregarded)—\n(a) in paragraph 44 at the end there shall be added—\n“, including any amount of council tax benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 4D of the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (entitlement of a refugee to council tax benefit) but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date that such an amount is received pursuant to that regulation”;\n(b) after paragraph 47 the following paragraphs shall be added—\n“48 Any amount of housing benefit to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 7B (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit) but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date that such an amount is received pursuant to that regulation.\n49 Any amount of income support to which a person is entitled by virtue of regulation 21A of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (treatment of refugees) but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date that such an amount is received pursuant to that regulation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 44 was added by regulation 13(c) of S.R. 1993 No. 145"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 47 was added by regulation 21(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 334"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/448/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:33:22.217160+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."
}