The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1998

Housing Benefit: Maximum rent

9.  Regulation 11 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (maximum rent)(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs—

(a) in paragraph (8C)(2) for the words “paragraph 8(2A)”(3) there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 10”;

(b) in paragraph (13)—

(i) in the definition of “property-specific rent” for the words “paragraph 1(2)” there shall be substituted “paragraph 1” and for the words “paragraph 3” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 3(3)”;

(ii) for the definition of “the Rent Officers order” the following definition shall be substituted and inserted after the definition of “relevant rent”—

““the Rent Officers Order” means the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997(4) or, as the case may be, the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Scotland Order 1997(5);”;

(iii) in the definition of “relevant rent” for the words “paragraph 5” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 6”; and

(iv) in the definition of “single room rent”(6) for the words “paragraph 4A” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph 5”.

(1)

Regulation 11 was substituted by S.I.1995/1644.

(2)

Paragraph (8C) was inserted by S.I.1995/2868.

(3)

Words substituted by S.I.1997/852; relevant amending instrument S.I.1997/852.

(4)

S.I.1997/1984.

(5)

S.I.1997/1995 (S.144).

(6)

This definition was inserted by S.I.1996/965.