{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-34.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/184",
  "legislation_title": "The Rate Relief Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rate-relief-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Moving into a hereditament following stay in hospital or care home",
  "text": "(1) The claimant is to be treated as having occupied a hereditament before he moved into it where—\n(a) he has since moved in and, immediately before the move was liable for rates in respect of that hereditament; and\n(b) the liability to make the payments arose while he was a patient or accommodated in a care home.\n(2) No claimant may be treated as occupying a hereditament under this regulation for more than one month.\n(3) Any determination in respect of the claimant's award of universal credit made (whether on the initial decision or as subsequently revised or superseded or further revised or superseded) in accordance with paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Universal Credit Regulations shall be followed for the purpose of this regulation.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n“care home” means a residential care home;\n“patient” means a person who is undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in any hospital or similar institution.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/184/regulation/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:21.600848+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."
}