2.—(1) The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 8 (date from which a decision superseding an earlier decision takes effect) for paragraph (15)(2) substitute—
“(15) A decision to which regulation 7A(2) applies shall take effect—
(a)from 1st April in a case where the claimant’s weekly amount of eligible rent falls to be calculated in accordance with regulation 80(2)(b) or (c) of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 61(2)(b) or (c) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations; and
(b)in any other case, from the first Monday in April.”.
Paragraph (15) was inserted by S.I. 2003/2399 and substituted by S.I. 2007/2870 (as amended by S.I. 2008/586).