{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-85.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/85",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Decisions by a relevant authority",
  "text": "(1) Unless provided otherwise by these Regulations, any matter required to be determined under these Regulations shall be determined in the first instance by the relevant authority.\n(2) The relevant authority shall make a decision on each claim within 14 days of the provisions of regulations 81 and 82 being satisfied or as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 85(3) omitted (6.10.2008) by virtue of The Housing Benefit (Extended Payments) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/285), regs. 1(1), 2(6)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 85 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/regulation/85",
    "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."
}