21.—(1) Schedule 2 to these Regulations shall have effect in relation to both housing benefit and council tax benefit, but subject to any variations specified in the Schedule in its application to council tax benefit.
(2) In its application to council tax benefit, references in Schedule 2 to “the Contributions and Benefits Act” shall be read as references to “the Contributions and Benefits Act 1992”.
(3) The provisions of Schedule 2 apply only in the case of a person who has attained or whose partner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit, except in the case of a person to whom paragraph (4) applies.
(4) This paragraph applies where the claimant or, if the claimant has a partner, his partner, is a person on income support or on an income-based jobseeker’s allowance within the meaning of the Housing Benefit Regulations(1) or, as the case may be, the Council Tax Benefit Regulations.
See regulation 2(1) and (3A); paragraph (3A) was inserted by S.I. 1996/1510.