Paragraph 3 Payments excluded from being rent payments

England, Wales and Scotland

The following are excluded from being “rent payments”—

(a)

payments of ground rent;

(b)

payments in respect of a tent or the site on which a tent stands;

(c)

payments in respect of approved premises;

(d)

payments in respect of a care home;

F1(e)

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(f)

payments which are owner-occupier payments F2within the meaning of Schedule 1 of the Loans for Mortgage Regulations 2017;

(g)

payments which are service charge payments within the meaning of paragraph 7;

F3(h)

payments in respect of accommodation specified in paragraph 3A;

F4(i)

payments in respect of accommodation specified in paragraph 3B.

Annotations

F1: Sch. 1 para. 3(e) omitted (3.11.2014) by virtue of The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Supported Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/771), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(b)(i)
F2: Words in Sch. 1 para. 3(f) substituted (with effect in accordance with regs. 19 - 21 of the amending S.I.) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/725), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 5 para. 5(e)(i)
F3: Sch. 1 para. 3(h) added (3.11.2014) by The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit (Supported Accommodation) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/771), regs. 1(3), 2(2)(b)(ii)
F4: Sch. 1 para. 3(i) inserted (11.4.2018) by The Universal Credit (Miscellaneous Amendments, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/65), regs. 1(4), 3(12)(a) (with reg. 8(2)(3))