{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-10A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/schedule-2/paragraph-10A.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/10A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "One additional bedroom is allowed where on the application for the determination—\n(a) one or more of the following persons is stated as being a person who requires overnight care—\n(i) the tenant;\n(ii) the tenant’s partner;\n(iii) a person (other than the tenant or the tenant’s partner) who occupies the dwelling as their home;\n(iv) any child or young person in respect of whom the tenant or the tenant’s partner is a qualifying parent or carer; or\n(b) the tenant or tenant’s partner is (or both of them are) stated as being a qualifying parent or carer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 10A, 10B substituted for Sch. 2 para. 10A (20.2.2017) by The Housing Benefit (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/326), regs. 1(3), 3(5)(b) (as amended by S.R. 2016/432, reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 10A(a) substituted (20.4.2017) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Size Criteria) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/70), regs. 1(2), 2(5)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/405/schedule/2/paragraph/10A",
    "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."
}