The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Modification of Part III

14.  Part III of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (payments in respect of a dwelling) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

(a) as if for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

(b) as if for “housing benefit” and “that benefit”, wherever they occur, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(c) as if for “benefit week” and “benefit weeks”, wherever they occur, there were substituted “rate relief week” and “rate relief weeks” respectively;

(d) as if for regulation 11 (eligible housing costs) there were substituted—

“11.   Rate relief shall be payable in respect of the payments specified in regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 14 and a claimant’s maximum rate relief shall be calculated under Part VII of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21 by reference to the amount of his eligible rates determined in accordance with regulation 12(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications by regulation 14.”;

(e) as if in regulation 12 (rates)—

(i) in paragraph (1) “in the form of a rate rebate” were omitted;

(ii) in paragraph (2) after “regulation 13(1)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations”;

(iii) in paragraph (6) after “Housing Benefit Regulations” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 by regulation 21 of those Regulations”;

(f) as if regulations 13 to 16 and Schedules 1 to 3 were omitted.