Paragraph 7 F1

(1)

The Claims and Payment Regulations are amended as follows.

(2)

Omit regulations 34A (deductions of mortgage interest which shall be made from benefit and paid to qualifying lenders) and 34B (deductions of mortgage interest which may be made from benefits and paid to qualifying lenders in other cases).

(3)

In regulation 35 (deductions which may be made from benefit and paid to third parties), omit “Except as provided for in regulation 34A and Schedule 9A,”.

(4)

In Schedule 9 (deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties)—

(a)

in paragraph 1(1), omit the definition of “mortgage payment”;

(b)

in paragraph 3—

(i)

omit sub-paragraph (2)(b)(i);

(ii)

in sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii), for “for any other housing item” substitute “for any housing item”;

(iii)

in sub-paragraph (2A)(b)—

(aa)

in both places where the words occur omit “paragraph 4(8) or (11) or”;

(bb)

omit “paragraph 5(9) or (12) or”;

(cc)

omit “paragraph 6(10) or (13) or”;

(iv)

for sub-paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4)
Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to any debt which is for any item of housing costs and is less than half the annual amount due to be paid by the beneficiary or his partner in respect of that item, unless, in the opinion of the Secretary of State it is in the overriding interests of the family that paragraph (1) should apply.”;

(v)

omit sub-paragraphs (5) and (6);

(c)

in paragraph 9, omit sub-paragraph (2).

(5)

Omit Schedule 9A (deductions of mortgage interest from benefit and payment to qualifying lenders).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 5 paras. 7-10 inserted (5.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(3), 2(18)(e)

Notes on Part 1

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 5 Pt. 1 heading inserted (5.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(3), 2(18)(a)