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The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

S.R. 2006/407 · Made 12 October 2006 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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HOUSING; RATES; social security

Made 12th October 2006

Coming into operation 20th November 2006

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(d), 129(2), (3) and (4), 130, 131(1), (2) and (6), 132, 132A(3) and (4)(a), 133(2) and 171(1) and (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992f1, sections 1(1) and (1C), 5(1)(a) to (d) and (g) to (t) and (5), 73, 107, 119A, 126(4) and (5) and 165(1) and (4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992f2 and Articles 34 and 74(1) and (3) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998f3, and now vested in itf4:

These Regulations are made with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnelf5.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1992 c. 7; section 129(2) was amended, and section 129(2A) was inserted, by Article 8(2) of the Housing Support Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3154 (N.I. 8)); section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14); section 133(2) was amended by paragraph 18(3) of Schedule 2 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

f2

1992 c. 8; section 1(1C) was inserted by Article 18 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11)); in section 5 subsection (1) was amended by Article 3(1) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)), Article 70 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 (c. 4 (N.I.)) and subsection (5) was inserted by Article 3(1) of the Housing Benefit (Payment to Third Parties) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2597 (N.I. 20)); section 73 was amended by Article 15 of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and section 62 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000; section 107 was substituted by Article 56 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 and amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and paragraph 7 of Schedule 6 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000; section 119A was inserted by Article 10 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and in section 165 subsection (1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 and subsection (6) was amended by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

f3

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10); Article 34 was amended by Schedule 9 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000 and paragraph 30 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)) and Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002

f4

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

f5

See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993; see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Continuity of the law
  3. 3Revocations
  4. 4Documents referring to revoked provisions
  5. 5Consequential amendments
  6. 6Transitional provisions and savings
  7. 7Transitory modifications
  8. Signature
  9. Schedule 1Revocations
  10. Schedule 2: Consequential amendments
  11. 1Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations
  12. 2Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations
  13. 3Amendment of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations Repealed
  14. 4Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations
  15. 5Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations
  16. 6Amendment of the New Deal Orders
  17. 7Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations
  18. 8Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations
  19. 9Amendment of the Social Security (Notification of Change of Circumstances) Regulations Repealed
  20. 10Amendment of the Social Security (Loss of Benefit) Regulations
  21. 11Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations
  22. 12Amendment of the Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations
  23. Schedule 3: Transitional and savings provisions
  24. 1Paragraph 1
  25. 2Persons incapable of work
  26. 3Persons incapable of work
  27. 4Eligible Rent
  28. 5Paragraph 5
  29. 6Persons from abroad
  30. 7Frequency of payment of rent allowance
  31. 8Local reference rent taper
  32. 9Residential Care Homes
  33. Schedule 4: Transitory modifications
  34. 1Provisions not yet in force
  35. 2Refugees–Housing Benefit
  36. 3Persons from abroad
  37. 4Amendments having effect for limited period
  38. Explanatory note