Regulation 5 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

Regulation 10 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006^f1 (persons from abroad), is amended as follows.

In paragraph (3B) for sub-paragraph (f) substitute—

“(f)

a person who is treated as a worker for the purpose of the definition of “qualified person” in regulation 6(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 pursuant to—

(i)

regulation 6 of the Accession (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2006 (right of residence of a Bulgarian or Romanian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”), or

(ii)

regulation 5 of the Accession of Croatia (Immigration and Worker Authorisation) Regulations 2013 (right of residence of a Croatian who is an “accession State national subject to worker authorisation”);”.