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Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) RegulationsN.I.

2.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 M1 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 2(1) M2 (interpretation) omit the definition of “applicable consumer prices index”.

(3) In regulation 3 M3 (broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations)—

(a)in paragraph (2) M4, for “In 2012 and in each subsequent year, no more than 20 working days after the applicable consumer prices index is published,” substitute “ In 2014 and in each subsequent year, on the date specified in paragraph (2A), ”; and

(b)after paragraph (2) insert—

(2A) The date specified for the purposes of paragraph (2) is—

(a)15th January where that is a Wednesday; or

(b)where 15th January is not a Wednesday, the first Wednesday following 15th January..

F1(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

Marginal Citations

M1S.R. 2008 No. 100; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2011 No.51 and S.R. 2012 No.157

M2The definition of “applicable consumer prices index” was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2012 No. 157

M3Regulation 3 was amended by S.R. 2011 No. 51 and S.R. 2012 No. 157

M4Paragraph (2) was substituted by regulation 2(3)(b) of S.R. 2012 No. 157