The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987

Provisions common to regulations 85 and 86

87.—(1) In regulations 85 and 86–

“authority of like status” means a Review Board of different composition to that giving the decision where it is inexpedient for that same Review Board to correct or set aside its decision.

“determining authority” means an appropriate authority or a Review Board.

(2) In calculating the time specified in regulations 79(2) (review of determinations), 81(1) (further review of determinations), and 86(2) (setting aside of determinations and decisions on certain grounds) there shall be disregarded any day before the day on which notice was given of a correction to a determination or to the record of a decision under regulation 85 (correction of accidental errors in determinations and decisions) or a refusal to make such a correction, or on which notice is given of a determination or decision that a determination or decision shall not be set aside following an application made under regulation 86 as the case may be.

(3) There shall be no review or further review of a correction made under regulation 85 or a refusal to make such a correction or against a determination or decision given under regulation 86.