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Article 5 Permitted total of benefit in modified schemes

For the purpose of section 134(9) of the Act (modifications other than war disablement pension or war widows pension within the Act), the permitted total of housing benefit for F1any year commencing on or after on 1st April 1996 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by deducting 100% of any housing benefit awarded as a consequence of any determination to disregard made by that authority during that year pursuant to a modification adopted by them under section 134(8)(b) of the Act (power to modify housing benefit schemes as prescribed) and regulation 7 of the Income-related Benefits Schemes Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1995 M1 (power to modify in respect of certain pensions to war widows) from the total housing benefit granted by that authority during that year and multiplying the resulting figure by 100.7%.

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Textual amendments

F1

Words in art. 5 substituted (31.3.1998) by The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/566), art. 3reg. 1(1)

Marginal citations

M1

S.I. 1995/2792 as amended by S.I. 1995/3282.