80Restrictions on power
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(1)Regulations under section 79 may not provide for financial assistance to be given to meet or help to meet housing costs.
(2)Regulations under section 79 may not provide for financial assistance to be given where the need for the assistance arises solely from reduction, non-payability or suspension of a reserved benefit as a result of an individual’s conduct (for example, non-compliance with work-related requirements relating to the benefit).
(3)But subsection (2) does not prevent assistance from being given where the need for the assistance in question—
(a)also arises from some exceptional event or exceptional circumstances, and
(b)is immediate.