Regulation 2 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 5(3)(b)^f2 (late application for a revision) for “regulation 4(4)” substitute “regulation 4(3)”.

(3)

In regulation 8 (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect)—

(a)

in paragraph (6A)(a)^f3—

(i)

in head (i)—

(aa)

after “benefit week” insert “in which the day”;

(bb)

omit “has elapsed”; and

(cc)

after “last decision” add “occurs”, and

(ii)

in head (ii) omit “has elapsed”; and

(b)

paragraph (11), as added by regulation 4(5) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003^f4, is renumbered paragraph (12).

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 2 in operation at 1.6.2007, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 2001 No. 213; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2003 No. 418, S.R. 2004 No. 144, S.R. 2005 No. 46 and S.R. 2006 No. 407
f2: Regulation 5(3)(b) was amended by regulation 8(3) of S.R. 2005 No. 46
f3: Regulation 8(6A) was inserted by regulation 31(2) of S.R. 2004 No. 144 and amended by paragraph 7(5)(c) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 2006 No. 407
f4: S.R. 2003 No. 418