Contents
- 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
- 2 Amendment of Housing Benefit and (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations
- 3 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations
- 4 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations
- 5 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations
1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance and Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2014.
(2)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2Amendment of Housing Benefit and (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations#
In regulation 8 of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 note (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect) after paragraph (14) add—“15 A decision to which regulation 7A(2) applies shall take effect—a from 1st April in a case where the claimant's weekly amount of eligible rent falls to be calculated in accordance with regulation 78(2)(b) or (c) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 59(2)(b) or (c) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations;b in any other case, from the first Monday in April.”
3Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations#
In regulation 14C of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 note (when a maximum rent (LHA) is to be determined)—
(a)in paragraph (2)(d)—
(i)at the end of paragraph (ii) omit “or”; and
(ii)after paragraph (iii) add—“oriv notification of a change of a kind which affects the amount of the claimant's cap rent as determined in accordance with regulation 14D.”
(b)for paragraph (3) substitute—“3 This paragraph applies on 1st April in any year.”
(c)omit paragraphs (4) and (6).
4Amendment of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations#
In regulation 14C of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) (Northern Ireland) 2006 note (when a maximum rent (LHA) is to be determined)—
(a)in paragraph (2)(d)—
(i)at the end of paragraph (ii) omit “or”; and
(ii)after paragraph (iii) add—“oriv notification of a change of a kind which affects the amount of the claimant's cap rent as determined in accordance with regulation 14D.”
(b)for paragraph (3) substitute—“3 This paragraph applies on 1st April in any year.”
(c)omit paragraphs (4) and (6).
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