{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom”, in paragraph (a)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (i) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with section 65(3) of the Act”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (ia) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with regulation 6 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024”;\n(c) omit the “or” after sub-paragraph (iii);\n(d) for the “and” after sub-paragraph (iv) substitute “or”;\n(e) for the “or” after sub-paragraph (iva) substitute “and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/214, amended by S.I. 2017/213, 2022/177, 2024/919; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/3/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:22:01.519672+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."
}