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Article 22 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

The Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a)

omit the definition of “child disability payment”;

(b)

after the definition of “relevant decision” insert—

  • ““Scottish disability benefit” means, as the context requires, either of the following benefits—

    1. (a)

      adult disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022; and

    2. (b)

      child disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021;”.

(3)

In regulation 4(6B)(b) (revision of decisions), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(4)

In regulation 7(2)(h)(ii) (decisions superseding earlier decisions), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(5)

In regulation 8(12) (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.R. 2001 No. 213 relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2003 No. 418 and S.I. 2021/786.