# The Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: N.I.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend various Regulations relating to housing benefit.
Regulation 2 amends the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 to provide for the date from which certain decisions take effect and to make minor drafting corrections.
Regulations 3 and 4 amend the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 to—
clarify that a particular restriction in relation to liability to make payments in respect of a dwelling applies to rent;
provide that where the claimant’s partner is the owner of a dwelling then payments by a claimant in respect of that dwelling are not eligible for housing benefit;
provide that the amount of housing benefit payable to a claimant in respect of a dwelling will be subject to the maximum rent provisions from the beginning of his claim if his partner has claimed housing benefit in respect of that dwelling in the previous 52 weeks; and
take account of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.
Regulation 4 also makes a minor drafting correction.
Regulation 5 revokes provisions which no longer have effect.
In so far as these Regulations are required, for the purposes of regulations 2, 3(2), (5) and (6), 4(2) and (5) to (7) and 5, to be referred to the Social Security Advisory Committee under section 149(2) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee, they have not been so referred by virtue of section 150(1)(b) of that Act. Otherwise they make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, that Act, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/266/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/note
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