The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Amendment of regulation 10 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 10 of the principal Regulations (rent)—

(a) for paragraph (3)(1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(3) Subject to paragraphs (4), (5) and (6B)(2), the amount of a person’s eligible rent shall be—

(a) the maximum rent where a maximum rent has been, or falls to be, determined in accordance with regulation 11 (maximum rent), or

(b) except where sub-paragraph (a) applies, the aggregate of such payments specified in paragraph (1) as that person is liable to pay less—

(i) except where he is separately liable for rates, an amount determined in accordance with paragraph (6);

(ii) where payments include service charges which are wholly or partly ineligible, an amount in respect of the ineligible charges determined in accordance with Schedule 1 (ineligible service charges), and

(iii) where he is liable to make payments in respect of any service charges to which paragraph (1)(e) does not apply, but to which paragraph 2(1A)(3) of Schedule 1 (amount of ineligible charges) applies in the particular circumstances, an amount in respect of such charges determined in accordance with paragraph 2(1A) of Schedule 1.”;

(b) paragraph (6A)(4) shall be omitted.

(1)

Paragraph (3) was amended by regulation 4 of S.R. 1993 No. 145 and regulation 5(a) and (b) of S.R. 1996 No. 111

(2)

Paragraph (6B) was added by regulation 5(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 111

(3)

Paragraph 2(1A) was inserted by regulation 11 of S.R. 1991 No. 47 and amended by regulation 10(a) of S.R. 1993 No. 145

(4)

Paragraph (6A) was added by regulation 5(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 111