This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1997/2435 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that statutory instrument.
1998 No. 2454
The Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Amendment Regulations 1998
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred by sections 75(3) to (7), 189(4) to (6) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 19921 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it2 and after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned3, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations which may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Amendment Regulations 1998 shall come into force on 30th October 1998.
Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 19972
Regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 19974 (restriction on recovery of rent and consequent notifications) shall be amended in the following manner–
a
in paragraph (2) for the word “recovered” there shall be substituted the word “recoverable”;
b
in paragraph (3)–
i
after the words “paragraph (2) applies” the first time they appear, there shall be inserted the words “or will apply when recovery is made,”; and
ii
in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “was one” there shall be substituted the words “is or will be one”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)