Regulation 26 Modification of Part X and Schedule 11I1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Part X of the Housing Benefit Regulations^f1 (claims) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations with the following modifications—

(a)

as if for “housing benefit”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(b)

as if for “benefit week”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief week”;

(c)

as if for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

F1(d)

as if in regulation 81—

(i)

in paragraphs (4AA) to (4E) for “the Department” there were substituted “the Department for Social Development”;

(ii)

in paragraphs (4BA) and (4C) “or the Department” were omitted;

(iii)

in paragraph (10) for “award benefit” there were substituted “award rate relief”;

(e)

as if in regulation 81A after “Schedule 11” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

(f)

as if in regulation 82—

(i)

in paragraph (1) after “Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(ii)

in paragraph (4)(a)(i) and (b) after “Schedule 7” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 19”;

(iii)

in paragraph (4)(c) after “or (c)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 22”;

(g)

as if—

F2(i)

in regulation 83(2) and (5) after “regulation 81”;

(ii)

in regulation 84(1)(a) after “81”;

(iii)

in regulation 84A after “regulation 84”;

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

(h)

as if in regulation 84—

(i)

in paragraph (2)(a) “rent and” were omitted;

F3(ii)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(i)

as if in regulation 84A after “Schedule 11” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”.

(2)

Schedule 11 to the Housing Benefit Regulations^f2 (electronic communication) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations with the following modification as if in paragraph 2(1) for “housing benefit” there were substituted “rate relief”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 26(1)(d) substituted (9.11.2009) byThe Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/339), reg 1, 2(7)(a)
F2: Reg. 26(1)(g)(i) substituted (9.11.2009) byThe Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/339), reg 1, 2(7)(b)
F3: Reg. 26(1)(h)(ii) omitted (1.7.2010) byThe Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/194), regs 1, 2(9)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 26 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: Regulations 81, 83 and 84 were amended by regulation 2 of S.R. 2006 No. 462 and regulations 81A and 84A were inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2006 No. 463
f2: Schedule 11 was inserted by Article 2(5) of S.R. 2006 No. 463