The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment to regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) for the definition of “designated office”(1) there shall be substituted the following definition –

““designated office” means the office designated by the relevant authority for the receipt of claims to housing benefit, either –

(a)

by notice upon or with a form approved by it for the purpose of claiming housing benefit;

(b)

by reference upon or with such a form to some other document available from it and sent by electronic means or otherwise on application and without charge, or

(c)

by any combination of the provisions set out in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b);”.

(1)

Definition of “designated office” was amended by Schedule 1 to S.R. 2001 No. 215