{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1995/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1644",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1A to the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1A to the Principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.\n(2) For paragraph 3 there shall be substituted—\n“3 (1) This paragraph applies where the landlord is a registered housing association, none of the other paragraphs of this Schedule apply, and the local authority consider that either\n(a) the claimant occupies a dwelling larger than is reasonably required by him and any others who occupy that dwelling (including any non-dependants of his and any person paying rent to him); or\n(b) the rent payable for that dwelling is unreasonably high.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, the authority shall state in the application for a determination that the circumstances set out in sub-paragraph (1) above exist.”.\n(3) In paragraph 12 there shall be added, at the end, the phrase—\n“and, in the case of a determination by a rent officer pursuant to a request for such a determination under regulation 12A(1)(c), any reference to a “tenancy” shall be taken as a reference to a prospective tenancy and any reference to an “occupier” or any person “occupying” a dwelling shall, in the case of such a determination, be taken to be a reference to a potential occupier or potential occupation of that dwelling.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 12 was amended by S.I. 1990/1775 and 1993/1249."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1644/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:06:51.547474+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."
}