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Article 8 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) the definition of “adjudication officer”f2 shall be omitted.

(3)

In regulation 95(4A)f3 (withholding of benefit) for “an adjudication officer” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “the Department”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Art. 8 in operation at 29.11.1999 for specified purposes, see art. 3

Footnotes

f1

S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 Nos. 89 and 129 and S.R. 1996 No. 334

f2

The definition of “adjudication officer” was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 1995 No. 129

f3

Paragraph (4A) was inserted by regulation 9(a) of S.R. 1995 No. 89 and amended by regulation 17 of S.R. 1996 No. 334