{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-amendments-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1647",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Housing Costs Amendments) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-housing-costs-amendments-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996",
  "text": "(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 are amended as follows, subject to regulation 8 (saving provision).\n(2) In Schedule 2 (housing costs)—\n(a) in paragraph 1(2) (housing costs), omit the definition of “existing housing costs” and “new housing costs”;\n(b) omit paragraph 6 (existing housing costs);\n(c) in paragraph 7 (new housing costs)—\n(i) in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), omit “new”;\n(ii) omit sub-paragraphs (3) to (7); and\n(iii) for the heading, substitute “Housing costs”;\n(d) in paragraph 8 (general exclusions from paragraphs 6 and 7)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1), for “Paragraphs 6 and 7” substitute “Paragraph 7”; and\n(ii) in the heading, for “Paragraphs 6 and 7” substitute “Paragraph 7”;\n(e) in paragraph 9 (the calculation for loans), for “existing housing costs or, as the case may be, new housing costs” substitute “housing costs”;\n(f) in paragraph 10 (general provisions applying to new and existing housing costs)—\n(i) omit sub-paragraphs (1) and (2); and\n(ii) in the heading, omit “new and existing”;\n(g) in paragraph 12(9) (excessive housing costs), for “paragraphs 6 and 7” substitute “paragraph 7”;\n(h) in paragraph 13 (linking rule)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (4A)(a), omit “6(1) or”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (11), omit paragraph (a); and\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (15), omit “6(1)(a), 6(1)(b) or”; and\n(i) in paragraph 18 (continuity with income support or income-related employment and support allowance), omit sub-paragraph (1)(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Schedule 2 was modified by S.I. 2008/3195. S.I. 2008/3195 is revoked by regulation 7(1) of these Regulations, subject to regulation 7(2) and regulation 8 (savings). Relevant amendments were made to Schedule 2 by S.I. 1996/1516, 1997/2305, 1999/192, 2000/1978, 2001/488 and 3651, 2002/841, 2004/2825 and 2008/1554."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1647/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:44.867791+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."
}