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Regulation 5 Housing Benefit – modification of the rule on whether a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as their home

For the purposes of entitlement to housing benefit, F1where the Department is satisfied that it is expedient as a result of coronavirus disease and in such cases as the Department determines, the following provisions are to be read as if the words in sub-paragraph (b) were omitted—

(a)

regulation 7(14) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 M1; and

(b)

regulation 7(14) of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 M2.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 5 inserted (12.5.2021) by The Social Security (Coronavirus) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/105), regs. 1(1), 4(5)

Marginal citations

M1

S.R. 2006 No. 405. There are no relevant amending Regulations.

M2

S.R. 2006 No. 406. There are no relevant amending Regulations.