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Regulation 3 Amendment of the Housing Benefit RegulationsI1I2

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).

(2)

In regulation 9(1)(h) (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as not liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling) after “the liability” insert “in respect of rent”.

(3)

In regulation 13(2) (rent)—

(a)

at the end of sub-paragraph (b) omit “and”; and

(b)

after sub-paragraph (c) add—

“and

(d)

payments by a person in respect of a dwelling where his partner is an owner of that dwelling.”.

F1(4)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5)

In Schedule 2 (decisions of rent payable) in paragraph 15 in the definition of “uncontrolled tenancy” for “protected or statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978” substitute “controlled tenancy within the meaning of Article 40(4) of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006f2”.

(6)

In Schedule 3 (excluded tenancies) in paragraph 4 for “protected or statutory tenancy within the meaning of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978” substitute “controlled tenancy within the meaning of Article 40(4) of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Reg. 3(4) revoked (with application in accordance with reg. 1(3)(4) of the amending Rule) by The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/101), regs. 1(1), 3

Commencement

I1

Reg. 3(1)(2)(5)(6) in operation at 1.6.2007, see reg. 1(1)

I2

Reg. 3(3)(4) in operation at 1.10.2007, see reg. 1(2)

Footnotes

f1

S.R. 2006 No. 405

f2

S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)