The Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Abolition of Benefit Periods Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendment of Schedule 1B to the Housing Benefit Regulations

15.—(1) Schedule 1B to the Housing Benefit Regulations(1) (excluded tenancies) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) For paragraph 2(2)(2) there shall be substituted –

“(2) For the purposes of any claim, notification, request or application (“the later application”), a tenancy shall not be an excluded tenancy by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) by reference to the Executive’s decision made in consequence of an earlier claim, notification, request or application (“the earlier application”) where –

(a) the earlier and later applications were made in respect of the same claimant or different claimants, and

(b) the earlier application was made more than 52 weeks before the later application was made.”.

(3) Paragraph 2(2A) shall be omitted.

(1)

Schedule 1B was inserted by regulation 15 and Schedule 2 of S.R. 1996 No. 111

(2)

Paragraph 2(2) was substituted by regulation 7 of S.R. 2001 No. 79 and amended by regulation 4(s)(i) of S.R. 2001 No. 215 and regulation 3(a) and 3(b) of S.R. 2001 No. 238