Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations

2.  In the Schedule to the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008(1) (broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations)—

(a) in paragraph 2(2) (local housing allowance for category of dwelling in paragraph 1)—

(i) omit sub-paragraph (2) and (9)(3);

(ii) for sub-paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) For all broad rental market areas the local housing allowance for a category of dwelling is—

(a) the local housing allowance determined for that category of dwelling on 30^th January 2015 (or, where the determination is amended under regulation 14F of the Housing Benefit Regulations(4) the allowance provided for in the amended determination); or

(b) the rent at the 30^th percentile determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (4) to (8), where that rent is lower than the allowance referred to in paragraph (a),”; and

(b) omit paragraph 6(5).

(1)

S.R. 2008 No. 100; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2013 No. 303 and S.R. 2015 No. 2

(2)

Paragraph 2 was substituted by regulation 2(2)(a) of S.R. 2013 No. 303

(3)

Sub-paragraph (9) was amended by regulation 2(3)(a) of S.R. 2015 No. 2

(4)

S.R. 2006 No. 405 regulation 14F was substituted by regulation 2(7) of S.R. 2008 No. 101

(5)

Paragraph 6 was inserted by regulation 2(2)(b) of S.R. 2013 No. 303 and amended by regulation 2(3)(b) of S.R. 2015 No. 2