hostelmeans a building other than a residential care home or nursing home within the meaning of regulation 19(3) of the Income Support Regulations or residential accommodation within the meaning of regulation 21(3) of those Regulations— (a) in which there is provided for persons generally, or for a class of persons, accommodation, otherwise than in separate and selfcontained premises, and either board or facilities of a kind set out in paragraph 4A(1)(d) below adequate to the needs of those persons and— (b) which is— (a) managed by or owned by a housing association registered with the Housing Corporation established by the Housing Act 1964;
housing authoritymeans a local authority, a new town corporation, Scottish Homes or the Development Board for Rural Wales;”
original debtmeans the debt to which sub-paragraph (2) applies, including any reconnection charges arising out of that debt. 2 Where a beneficiary or his partner is liable, whether directly or indirectly, for water charges and is in debt for those charges, the adjudicating authority may determine, subject to paragraph 8, that a weekly amount of the specified benefit shall be paid either to a water undertaker to whom that debt is owed, or to the person or body authorised to collect water charges for that undertaker, except where— a water charges are determined by means of a water meter and the debt is less than half the charge which the adjudicating authority estimates to be the annual charge;
the Adjudication Regulationsmeans the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1986;
the Claims and Payments Regulationsmeans the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.
voluntary organisationshall mean a body the activities of which are carried out otherwise than for profit, but shall not include any public or local authority;”
water undertakermeans a company which has been appointed under section 11(1) of the Water Act 1989 to be the water or sewerage undertaker for any area in England and Wales.”