{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-amendment-order-2022/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-amendment-order-2022/schedule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/983",
  "legislation_title": "The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-subsidy-to-authorities-amendment-order-2022",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Substitution of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 4A\nRent Rebate Limitation Deductions (Housing Revenue Account Dwellings): Authorities in Wales\nArticle 20A\nInterpretation\n1. In this Schedule—\n“HRA” means the Housing Revenue Account of the authority the amount of whose subsidy is under consideration;\n“rent”, in relation to a dwelling, means the total of the payments in respect of the dwelling specified in regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations, other than a payment specified in regulation 12(1)(e).\nLiability to deduction\n2. (1) This paragraph applies in relation to the relevant year if—\n(a) the authority is specified in the Table in paragraph 4 for that year, and\n(b) O + P is less than Q where—\nO is the amount specified in column 1 of that Table for the authority;\nP is the guideline rent increase specified in column 2 of that Table for the authority;\nQ is the average weekly rent for a dwelling for the authority for the relevant year.\n(2) For the purposes of determining Q in sub-paragraph (1)(b), the average weekly rent for a dwelling for the authority for the relevant year is calculated by dividing the total rent charged for all dwellings in the HRA in that year by the total number of weeks for which rent was charged for all dwellings in the HRA, disregarding any unoccupied dwelling.\nAmount of deduction\n3. (1) The amount of the deduction from subsidy referred to in article 20A(2) is to be calculated as follows—\nStep 1\nDivide the amount of rebates granted by the authority in the relevant year in respect of dwellings in the HRA by the income of the authority for that year from rent (including rent remitted by way of rebate) in respect of such dwellings.\nStep 2\nIf the result of Step 1—\n(a) does not exceed the rebate proportion for the relevant year (see sub-paragraph (2))—\n(i) deduct (O + P) from Q (see paragraph 2);\n(ii) divide the result of paragraph (a)(i) by Q;\n(iii) multiply the amount of the subsidy (apart from any deduction to be calculated under this Schedule) by the result of paragraph (a)(ii));\n(b) exceeds the rebate proportion for the relevant year—\n(i) deduct (O + P) from Q (see paragraph 2);\n(ii) divide the result of paragraph (b)(i) by Q;\n(iii) divide the rebate proportion (see sub-paragraph (2)) by the result of Step 1;\n(iv) multiply the result of paragraph (b)(ii) by the result of paragraph (b)(iii);\n(v) multiply the amount of the subsidy (apart from any deduction to be calculated under this Schedule) by the result of paragraph (b)(iv).\n(2) The rebate proportion for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) for the relevant year beginning with 1st April 2022 is 0.528.\nAmounts for the purposes of paragraph 2\n4. The amounts for the relevant year beginning with 1st April 2022 for the purposes of paragraph 2 are as follows—\nLocal authority\n(1) Specified amount “O” (£)\n(2) Guideline rent increase “P” (£)\nCaerphilly County Borough Council\n101.42\n3.14\nCardiff City Council\n114.24\n3.54\nCarmarthenshire County Council\n100.60\n3.12\nDenbighshire County Council\n100.88\n3.59\nFlintshire County Council\n104.52\n5.04\nIsle of Anglesey County Council\n100.10\n4.99\nPembrokeshire County Council\n103.60\n3.42\nPowys County Council\n104.19\n3.23\nSwansea City Council\n101.62\n3.15\nVale of Glamorgan Council\n112.09\n5.15\nWrexham Council\n103.33\n4.49\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/983/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:55:37.546902+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."
}