Regulation 4 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance and Information Sharing) Amendment Regulations 2007

(1)

The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance and Information Sharing) Amendment Regulations 2007^f1 shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 3 (amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 relating to information sharing)—

(a)

in paragraph (1)(b), in the inserted paragraph (4A) for “regulation 114A(6)” substitute “regulation 114A(5)”; and

(b)

in paragraph (2), in paragraph (1)(b) of the inserted regulation 114A for “regulation 12A” substitute “regulation 12D”.

(3)

In regulation 4(1)(g) (amendments to regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006) for the inserted definition of “registered housing association” substitute—

““registered housing association” means a housing association which—

(a)

is registered in a register maintained by the Corporation or the National Assembly for Wales under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996^f2; or

(b)

in Scotland, is registered by Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 57(3)(b) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001^f3,

and “the Corporation” has the same meaning as in section 56 of the Housing Act 1996;”.

(4)

In regulation 7 (insertion of regulations 13C, 13D and 13E into the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006)—

(a)

in the inserted regulation 13C(5) for “falling within any of paragraphs 4 to 10” substitute “mentioned in any of paragraphs 4 to 11”; and

(b)

in the inserted regulation 13D(2)(b) after “size criteria” insert “as set out in paragraph (3)”.

(5)

In regulation 8 (substitution of regulation 14 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006), in the substituted paragraph 14—

(a)

in paragraph (1)(f)—

(i)

for “or (e)” substitute “, (e) or (h)”; and

(ii)

in paragraph (ii) omit “or”; and

(b)

after paragraph (1)(g) add—

“or

(h)
has received notification that any of the circumstances in regulation 13C(5) apply.”; and

(c)

in paragraph (8) omit the definition of “the Corporation”.

(6)

In regulation 19 (amendment of Schedules 7 and 8 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006) for “paragraph 3(2)” substitute “paragraph 3(3)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2007/2868.
f2: 1996 c.52.
f3: 2001 asp 10.