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1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation as follows—
(a)for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 4(b) on 7th April 1997;
(b)for the purposes of regulations 2, 3, 4(a) and 5 on 6th October 1997.
(2)In these Regulations—• “the principal Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;• “young individual” has the meaning specified in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations.
(3)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
4Amendment of Schedule 1B to the principal Regulations#
In Schedule 1B to the principal Regulations (excluded tenancies)—
(a)in paragraph 2(3)(d) after “young individual” there shall be inserted “or person to whom regulation 11(3B) applies”;
(b)in paragraph 6(2) for the words from “if there” to the end of the paragraph, there shall be substituted the following—“if—a there has been an increase in rent since the disposal occurred, andb the claimant occupies a dwelling larger than is reasonably required by him and any others who occupy that dwelling (including any non-dependant of his and any person paying rent to him), orc the rent payable for that dwelling is unreasonably high.”
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