{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-subsidy-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-subsidy-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/785",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-benefit-subsidy-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision for the calculation of housing benefit subsidy payable under sections 30(2), (2A) and (3) of the Social Security Act 1986 to authorities who grant rent rebates or allowances, rate rebates or, in Scotland, community charge rebates under that Act in the year ending 31st March 1990.\nThe Order sets out the manner in which the total figure for an authority’s subsidy in respect of rebates and allowances for the year is calculated (articles 2(a) and 3 to 11 and Schedules 2, 3, 4 and 5), and the manner of calculating the additional sum payable to an authority in respect of the costs of administering housing benefit (article 2(b) and Schedules 1 and 6).\nThe Order makes provision for additions and deductions to subsidy in respect of rebates or allowances (articles 12 and 13) and for the modification of the provisions for subsidy in respect of payments of housing benefit in excess of entitlement, made before 1st April 1988 under section 32 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and discovered in the relevant year (article 14).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/785/note",
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  },
  "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."
}