The Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals and Discretionary Financial Assistance) (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Amendment of Schedule 6 to the Housing Benefit Regulations

6.  In Schedule 6 to the Housing Benefit Regulations(1)—

(a) in the heading for “Notice of Determination” there shall be substituted “Decision Notice”;

(b) subject to sub-paragraph (g), for “notice of determination”, wherever those words appear, there shall be substituted “decision notice”;

(c) except in a case to which sub-paragraph (b) applies, for “determination”, wherever that word appears, there shall be substituted “decision”;

(d) in paragraph 1 for “79 (review of determinations)” there shall be substituted “in regulation 10 of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations”;

(e) in paragraph 3 for “written representations in accordance with regulation 79(2)” there shall be substituted “an application for a revision in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations and, where appropriate, to appeal against that decision”;

(f) in paragraph 4 for “written representations in accordance with regulation 79(2)” there shall be substituted “an application for a revision in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations”;

(g) for paragraph 5 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“Every decision notice following an application for a revision in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations shall, if the original decision has been revised, include a statement as to the right of any person affected by that decision to apply for a revision in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of those Regulations and the manner and time in which to do so.”;

(h) in paragraph 8—

(i) for “review” there shall be substituted “revision”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) for “written representations in accordance with regulation 79(2)” there shall be substituted “an application for a revision in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of the Decisions and Appeals Regulations”;

(iii) for “reviewed” there shall be substituted “revised”.

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Relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1992 No. 141 and S.R. 1997 No. 454