PART 2Provisions affecting entitlement to rate relief

Exclusions from rate relief

Modification of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999I112

Section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 199910 (exclusion from benefits) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

a

as if for paragraph (1) there were substituted—

1

A person shall not be entitled to rate relief while he is a person to whom this section applies.

b

as if paragraphs (2), (5), (7) and (8) were omitted;

c

as if for paragraph (6) there were substituted—

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In relation to rate relief “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Department of Finance and Personnel.