{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-83.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/83",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Amendment and withdrawal of claim",
  "text": "(1) A person who has made a claim for benefit may amend it at any time before a decision has been made on the claim by notice in writing received at the designated office, by telephone call to a telephone number specified by the relevant authority under regulation 81(4A) (time and manner in which claims are to be made) or by the Department under regulation 81(4AA) or in such other manner as the Department may decide or accept.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Any claim amended in accordance with paragraph (1) ... shall be treated as if it had been amended in the first instance.\n(4) A person who has made a claim may withdraw it at any time before a decision has been made on it by notice to the designated office.\n(5) Where the claim was made by telephone in accordance with paragraphs (4AA) to (4AE) of regulation 81, the withdrawal may also be made by telephone to the telephone number specified by the Department.\n(6) Any notice of withdrawal given in accordance with paragraph (4) or (5) shall have effect when it is received.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 83 substituted (1.10.2008) by The Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/371), regs. 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 83(1) substituted (29.10.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/246), regs. 1(1), 9(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 83(1) substituted (20.6.2016) by The Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/230), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 83(2) omitted (29.10.2013) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/246), regs. 1(1), 9(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 83(3) omitted (29.10.2013) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/246), regs. 1(1), 9(3)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/83",
    "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."
}