{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-state-pension-credit-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-4.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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Regulation 5",
  "text": "In regulation 5 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) in paragraph (6)(c)(ii), for “or the claimant’s applicable amount includes a premium under paragraph 9, 9A, 10, 11, 13 or 14 of Schedule 2”, there shall be substituted “or the claimant is a person who has attained or whose partner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 6.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (6)(c)(ii) was amended by regulation 2 of S.R. 1989 No. 260"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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/4",
    "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."
}