The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 1994

Amendment of regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

2.  In regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “employed earner” for the words “Social Security Act” there shall be substituted the words “Contributions and Benefits Act and also includes a person who is in receipt of a payment which is payable under any enactment having effect in Northern Ireland and which corresponds to statutory sick pay or statutory maternity pay”;

(b) in the definition of “person affected” for the words “any person (including the appropriate authority) whose rights,” there shall be substituted the following words—

• “a person who is—

  (a)

  a claimant;

  (b)

  the appropriate authority;

  (c)

  the landlord, in the case of a determination made under regulation 93 or 94; or

  (d)

  a person from whom the appropriate authority determines that an overpayment is recoverable in accordance with Part XIII,

  and whose rights,”.