Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006

2.  In the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006(1) after regulation 91 (time and manner of payment) insert—

“Cases in which payments to a housing authority are to take the form of a rent allowance

91A.—(1) Where the occupier of a dwelling is liable to make payments in respect of that dwelling to a housing authority as a result of the making of an order specified in paragraph (2), housing benefit in respect of those payments shall take the form of a rent allowance.

(2) The orders specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—

(a)a management control order made in accordance with section 74 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004(2);

(b)an interim management order made in accordance with section 102 of the Housing Act 2004(3);

(c)a final management order made in accordance with section 113 of that Act;

(d)an interim empty dwelling management order made in accordance with section 133 of that Act; and

(e)a final empty dwelling management order made in accordance with section 136 of that Act.”.

(1)

S.I. 2006/213.