{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/725",
  "legislation_title": "The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Liable or treated as liable to make payments",
  "text": "(1) A claimant is liable to make owner-occupier payments where in the case of a single claimant, the claimant or the claimant's partner (if any), or, in the case of joint claimants, either member of the couple, has a liability to make the payments.\n(2) A claimant is to be treated as liable to make owner-occupier payments where—\n(a) all of the following conditions are met—\n(i) the person who is liable to make the payments is not doing so;\n(ii) the claimant has to make the payments in order to continue occupation of the relevant accommodation; and\n(iii) it is reasonable in all the circumstances to treat the claimant as liable to make the payments; or\n(b) all of the following conditions are met—\n(i) the claimant in practice shares the responsibility for the owner-occupier payments with other members of the household, none of whom are close relatives of, in the case of a single claimant, the claimant or the claimant’s partner (if any), or, in the case of joint claimants, either member of the couple;\n(ii) one or more of those members is liable to meet those payments; and\n(iii) it is reasonable in all the circumstances to treat that member as sharing responsibility.\n(3) Where any one or more, but not all, members of the claimant’s family are affected by a trade dispute, the owner-occupier payments shall be treated as wholly the responsibility of those members of the family not so affected.\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3), “trade dispute” has the meaning given in section 244 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:51.368421+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."
}