{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-housing-costs-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-housing-costs-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/222",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-housing-costs-executive-determinations-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Anomalous local housing allowances",
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 6, where—\n(a) the Executive has determined the local housing allowance for each of the categories of dwelling in paragraph 1 in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Schedule, and\n(b) the local housing allowance for a category of dwelling in paragraph 1(b) to (e) is lower than the local housing allowance for any of the categories of dwelling which precede it, that local housing allowance is to be the same as the highest local housing allowance which precedes it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 4 substituted (31.1.2024) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 (S.R. 2024/3), regs. 1(1), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/222/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:21.650574+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."
}