The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 441

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

HOUSING, SCOTLAND

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Regulations 1991

Made

4th March 1991

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of powers conferred by sections 30(8B) and (8C), 3IF(6) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986(1) and section 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act 1975(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of authorities concerned(3) and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that these Regulations should not be referred to it(4), hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1986 c. 50; sub-sections (8B) and (8C) of section 30 were inserted by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), section 15(2); section 31F was inserted by the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 10, paragraph 6 and sub-section (6) of that section was inserted by the Social Security Act 199() (c.27), Schedule 6, paragraph 21(3) and section 84(1) is cited because of the meanings assigned to “prescribed” and “regulations”.

(2)

1975 c. 14; sub-section (3) was amended by the Social Security Act 1989, section 31(1) and Schedule 8, paragraph 10; sub-section (3A) was inserted by section 62 of the Social Security Act 1986 and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 61(7) of that Act.

(3)

See section 61(7) of the Social Security Act 1986; section 61(7) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, Schedule 10, paragraph 10.

(4)

See the Social Security Act 1986, section 61(1)(b) and (10). The Social Security Act 1989, Schedule 8 added a definition of “regulations” to section 61(10) of the Act of 1986.