Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 and shall come into operation on 12th October 2009.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations
2. In the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(2) (broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations) after paragraph 2(5) (local housing allowance for category of dwelling in paragraph 1) insert—
“(5A) Where the Executive is not satisfied that the list of rents in respect of any category of dwelling would contain sufficient rents, payable at the date of the determination for dwellings in the broad rental market area, to enable a local housing allowance to be determined which is representative of the rents that a landlord might reasonably be expected to obtain in that area, the Executive may add to the list rents for dwellings in the same category in other areas in which a comparable market exists.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 28th September 2009
(L.S.)
Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development