Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations

2.  For regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (Information from Landlords and Agents) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) (manner of supply of information) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Manner of supply of information

5.—(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.”.