The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017 No. 725

SCHEDULE 3 Circumstances in which a claimant is, or is to be, treated as occupying accommodation

PART 2 Legacy benefit claimants and SPC claimants

Occupying accommodation: general rule

3.—(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this Part, the accommodation which the claimant occupies as the claimant’s home or, if the claimant is a member of a family, the claimant and the claimant’s family occupy as their home, is the accommodation which is normally occupied as the home.

(2) In determining whether accommodation is the accommodation normally occupied as the home for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), regard shall be had to any other dwelling occupied by the claimant or, if the claimant is a member of a family, by the claimant and the claimant’s family, whether or not that other dwelling is in Great Britain.