Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 2nd January 1996.

In this Order—

• “housing benefit” means either rent rebate or rent allowance as the circumstances may require;

• “the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987^f1;

• “increase in housing benefit” means the difference between—

  1. (a)

     the amount of housing benefit granted in a case in which an authority makes a determination under regulation 61(2) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (increase in the appropriate maximum housing benefit)^f2, and

  2. (b)

     the amount of housing benefit which would have been granted in that case if the authority had not made a determination under regulation 61(2) of those Regulations; and

• “increase above maximum rent” means the difference between—

  1. (a)

     the amount of housing benefit granted in a case in which an authority makes a determination under regulation 61(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations^f3, and

  2. (b)

     the amount of housing benefit which would have been granted in that case if the authority had not made a determination under regulation 61(3) of those Regulations.