Amendment of regulation 7A of the Housing Benefit Regulations
8.—(1) Regulation 7A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (persons from abroad)(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs —
(a)in paragraph (1) at the end there shall be added the words, “but this paragraph shall not have effect in respect of a person to whom and for a period to which regulation 7B and Schedule A1 apply.”;
(b)for head (ii) in paragraph (4)(e) there shall be substituted the following head —
“(ii)a refugee;”;
(c)in paragraph (7) the following definition shall be added at the end —
““refugee” in this regulation, regulation 7B (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit) and Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees), means a person recorded by the Secretary of State as a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees(2).”.
Regulation 7A was inserted by S.I. 1994/470, amended by S.I. 1994/1807, 1996/30 and 1510 and saved by section 11 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 (c. 49).
Cmd. 9171.