The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995

means accomodation which is— (a) a place provided by a voluntary organisation or by a local authority in respect of which the Secretary of State has given assistance by way of grant pursuant to paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 (grants for organisations providing places for purposes similar to resettlement units) and for this purpose “voluntary organisation” and “local authority” shall have the same meanings as they have in that paragraph;

means detained in custody pending sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court;

means the rent determined by a rent officer under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Rent Officers Order;

means a person— (a) who died, left the dwelling or was imprisoned, as the case may be;

means the rent determined by a rent officer under paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the Rent Officers Order, except in a case where a rent officer has made a rent determination under paragraph 3 of that Schedule, when it shall be the latter determination;

means those payments, which a person is liable to make in respect of the dwelling which he occupies as his home, and which are eligible, or would, but for this regulation, be eligible for housing benefit;

means (a) in a case where the rent officer has determined both a property-specific rent and a size-related rent, whichever rent is the lower of the two, or (b) in a case where the rent officer has determined only a property-specific rent or a size-related rent, as the case may be, that rent, less any amount of such a rent which the rent officer has determined, pursuant to paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Rent Officers Order, is attributable to the provision of services which are ineligible to be met by housing benefit;

means the rent determined by a rent officer under paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 to the Rent Officers Order.”

means 1st January 1996, except in a case to which paragraph (3) applies, when it shall be the relevant date;

means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987and expressions used in these Regulations and in the Principal Regulations shall have, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in the Principal Regulations;

means the date— (a) of the death of a previous beneficiary;

means the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) Order 1995) or, as the case may be, the Rent Officers (Additional Functions) (Scotland) Order 1995;

means any day after the first date for which a claimant’s entitlement to housing benefit is to be determined;