{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-103.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/405",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/103",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Prescribed benefits",
  "text": "(1) The benefits prescribed for the purposes of section 73(5) and (7) of the Administration Act (recovery of overpayments) are those set out in the following paragraphs.\n(2) Prescribed benefits within section 73(5)(a) of the Administration Act (benefits to which a landlord or agent is entitled) are—\n(a) housing benefit; and\n(b) those benefits prescribed from time to time in regulation 102(1), but only in cases where—\n(i) the Executive has, pursuant to regulation 99, requested the Department to recover an overpayment of housing benefit from such benefits, and\n(ii) the Department is satisfied as to the matters prescribed in paragraph (3)(a) and (b) of regulation 102.\n(3) Housing benefit is prescribed for the purposes of section 73(5)(b) or (c) of the Administration Act (benefits paid to a landlord or agent to discharge an obligation owed by another person).\n(4) Prescribed benefits within section 73(7) of the Administration Act (benefits recoverable from the county court) are housing benefit and those benefits prescribed from time to time in regulation 102(1).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 103 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Subsections (5) and (7) were added by Article 15 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:38:14.194536+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}