{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland)",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 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”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 27.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 405. The definition of a “member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom” was inserted by S.R. 2017 No. 70 and amended by S.I. 2022/177; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2024 No. 919"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/3/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:05.040009+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."
}