{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/196",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).\n(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “war widower’s pension” insert—\n““water charges” means any water and sewerage charges under Chapter I of Part VII of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 in so far as such charges are in respect of the dwelling which a person occupies as his home;”.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In Schedule 6 (amounts to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) in paragraph 13(2)(b) for “or rates” substitute “, rates or water charges”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3)(4) revoked 7.4.2008 byThe Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Local Housing Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.R. 2008/102), Regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 2.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 406"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/196/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:18.388267+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."
}