{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/67",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 7 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home)—\n(a) for paragraph (16)(c)(i) substitute—\n“(i) a person to whom paragraph (16A) applies;”; and\n(b) after paragraph (16) insert—\n“(16A) This paragraph applies to a person (“P”) who is detained in custody on remand pending trial, detained pending sentence upon conviction, or as a condition of bail, required to reside in a dwelling, other than a dwelling P occupies as P’s home, and who is not also detained in custody following sentence upon conviction.”.\n(3) In paragraph 21(2) of Schedule 7 (capital to be disregarded)—\n(a) omit “or” at the end of head (k); and\n(b) after head (l) add—\n“or\n(m) social fund payments.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 406; relevant amending Regulation is S.R. 2008 No. 378"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Head (l) was added by regulation 4(13)(a)(ii) of S.R. 2008 No. 378"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/67/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:40.140457+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."
}