Paragraph 20 C1

Any expenses of the Department or the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland in making payments to persons falling within sub-paragraph (2) or (3) below may be paid out of money appropriated by Measure.

A person falls within this sub-paragraph if—

A person falls within this sub-paragraph if he was entitled to any one or more of the former housing-related benefits in respect of a qualifying week but either—

In this paragraph—

• “commencement day” means the day on which the new provisions came into force in the case of the person in question (1st or 4th April 1988, according to the circumstances);

• “commencement week”, in relation to any person, means the week beginning with the commencement day in his case;

• “the former housing-related benefits” means—

  1. (a)

     rent rebates, rate rebates and rent allowances, within the meaning of the M1Housing Benefits (Northern Ireland) Order 1983; and

  2. (b)

     housing benefit supplement;

• “the new provisions” means the following provisions of Part III of the 1986 Order, so far as relating to housing benefit, that is to say, Articles 21 to 23, 29 and 30;

• “qualifying week”, in relation to any person, means any week beginning on or after 21st March 1988 and ending before the commencement day in his case;

• “week” means a period of 7 days.

For the purposes of this paragraph—