{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/363",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-general-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations (ineligible service charges) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph 1—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a)(iv), for the words from “(other than” to “them himself;” there shall be substituted\n“except cleaning of—\n(aa) communal areas; or\n(bb) the exterior of any windows where neither the claimant nor any member of his household is able to clean them himself,\nwhere a qualifying payment is not made in respect of such cleaning;”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (c), the words from “, except where such a system” to the end of the sub-paragraph shall be omitted; and\n(c) in sub-paragraph (f), the words from “, except where those services” to the end of the sub-paragraph shall be omitted.\n(3) In paragraph 7—\n(a) after the definition of “fuel” there shall be inserted—\n““qualifying payment” means any payment made by a local authority to the claimant or his partner, or to another person on their behalf, relating to—\n(a) welfare services in respect of which the Secretary of State has paid a grant to the local authority under section 93(1) of the Local Government Act 2000 (grants for welfare services);\n(b) welfare services in respect of which the National Assembly for Wales has paid a grant to the local authority under section 93(2) of the Local Government Act 2000; or\n(c) housing support services in respect of which Scottish Ministers have paid a grant to the local authority under section 91(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (grants for housing support services);\nand for these purposes, “local authority” shall include, in relation to England, a county council.”; and\n(b) the definition of “supported accommodation” is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "These words were substituted by S.I. 1999/2734 and will revive on 1st or 7th April 2003 by virtue of regulation 13 of that S.I."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "These words were substituted by S.I. 1999/2734 and will revive on 1st or 7th April 2003 by virtue of regulation 13 of that S.I."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 1(f) was amended by S.I. 1994/1003."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2000 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2001 asp 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "The definition of “supported accommodation” was inserted by S.I. 1997/1974 and was amended by S.I. 1999/2734 and 2000/681."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/363/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:56.493707+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."
}