{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/197",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations shall have effect, except where paragraph (2) applies, in relation to any person who has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit subject to the modifications set out in this Part, Part 3 and Schedule 2.\n(2) This paragraph applies if the claimant or if the claimant has a partner, his partner, is a person on income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance within the meaning of the Housing Benefit Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/197",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/197/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:17.579043+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."
}