Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations2
For regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19978 (manner of supply of information) there shall be substituted the following regulation—
Manner of supply of information5
1
Subject to paragraph (2) the relevant information shall be supplied—
a
in typewritten or printed form, or
b
with the written agreement of the requirer, in electronic or handwritten form,
within a period of 4 weeks commencing on and including the date on which the notice was sent or given.
2
Where—
a
within a period of 4 weeks commencing on and including the date on which the notice was sent or given, the supplier requests that the time for supply of the relevant information be extended, and
b
the requirer provides written agreement to that request,
the time for supply of the relevant information shall be extended to a period of 8 weeks commencing on and including the date on which the notice was sent or given.