# The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1989, Regulation 2: Amendment of regulation 3 of the General Regulations


In regulation 3 of the General Regulations (definition of non-dependant) –
(a) in paragraph (2)(e), for the words “liable to make payments” to the end there shall be substituted the words “liable to make payments on a commercial basis to the claimant or the claimant’s partner or to whom or to whose partner the claimant or the claimant’s partner is liable to make payments on a commercial basis, in respect of the occupation of the dwelling;”;
(b) in paragraph (3), the words “a person who normally resides with a claimant and who is a boarder or” shall be omitted;
(c) at the end of paragraph (4) there shall be added the words “but not if each person is separately liable to make payments in respect of his occupation of the dwelling to the landlord.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/416/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-2
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