The Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Consequential amendments to the Housing Benefit Regulations

13.  The Housing Benefit Regulations shall be further amended in accordance with the following paragraphs —

(a) in regulation 16 (applicable amounts) for the words “and 70” to “periods)” there shall be substituted the words “, 70 and Schedule A1 (polygamous marriages, patients, calculation of weekly amounts, rent free periods and treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)”;

(b) in regulation 17 (polygamous marriages) for the words “and 70” to “periods)” there shall be substituted the words “, 70 and Schedule A1 (patients, calculation of weekly amounts, rent free periods and treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)”;

(c) in paragraph (1) of regulation 18 (patients) for the words “and 70” to “periods)” there shall be substituted the words “, 70 and Schedule A1 (calculation of weekly amounts, rent free periods and treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)”;

(d) in regulation 72(1) (time and manner in which claims are to be made) at the end there shall be added the words “or paragraph 5 of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)”;

(e) in regulation 73(1) (evidence and information) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 5 of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees),”;

(f) in regulation 76(2) (who is to make a determination) —

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) at the end there shall be added the words “or paragraph 1 of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b) after the words “regulation 73” there shall be inserted the words “or paragraph 5 of Schedule A1”;

(g) in regulations 93 and 94 (circumstances in which payment is to be made to a landlord) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph 8(4) of Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees),”.