{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-loss-of-benefit-pilot-scheme-supplementary-regulations-2007/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-loss-of-benefit-pilot-scheme-supplementary-regulations-2007/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2474",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Loss of Benefit) (Pilot Scheme) (Supplementary) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-loss-of-benefit-pilot-scheme-supplementary-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001 are to apply subject to the following amendments—\n(a) in regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) at the appropriate places insert—\n““the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;”; and\n““the Pilot Scheme Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (Loss of Benefit) (Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2007;”;\n(b) in regulation 4 (revision of decisions) after paragraph (7F) insert—\n“(7G) Where the court makes a relevant order for possession, as defined in section 130C of the Contributions and Benefits Act (relevant orders for possession) and the order is set aside, a decision in accordance with regulation 7(2)(k) may be revised at any time.”;\n(c) in regulation 7(2) (decisions superseding earlier decisions) after sub-paragraph (j) add—\n“(k) that housing benefit is payable to a claimant where that benefit is reduced under regulation 4 of the Pilot Scheme Regulations (reduction of benefit);\n(l) made under sub-paragraph (k) and the claimant is a person in hardship under regulation 5 of the Pilot Scheme Regulations (meaning of “person in hardship”);\n(m) made under sub-paragraph (k) or (l) where section 130B(6) of the Contributions and Benefits Act applies so that the restriction period under that section stops running;\n(n) made under sub-paragraph (m) where section 130B(6) of that Act applies so that the restriction period starts running again.”;\n(d) in regulation 8 (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect) after paragraph (14A) insert—\n“(14B) A decision to which regulation 7(2)(k) applies shall take effect in accordance with regulation 4 of the Pilot Scheme Regulations;\n(14C) A decision to which regulation 7(2)(l) applies shall take effect on the day the claimant first represented himself to be a person in hardship in accordance with regulation 5 of the Pilot Scheme Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/1002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (7F) was inserted by S.I. 2006/644."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (14A) was inserted by S.I. 2005/2677."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2474/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:44:54.310575+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."
}