The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Modification of Part II and Schedule A1

11.—(1) Part II of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (provisions affecting entitlement to housing benefit) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

(a) as if for “housing benefit”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(b) as if for “benefit weeks”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief weeks”;

(c) as if—

(i) for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

(ii) in regulation 7(6) for “dwellings”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditaments”;

(d) as if in regulation 7—

(i) in paragraphs (3) and (4) “(including payments of mortgage interest or analogous payments)” were omitted;

(ii) in paragraph (3) after “of a dwelling)” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 by regulation 21 of those Regulations”;

(iii) in paragraph (6)(b) after “Housing Benefit Regulations” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 by regulation 21 of those Regulations”;

(iv) in paragraph (9)—

(aa) in sub-paragraph (a) after “regulation 62”;

(bb) in sub-paragraph (b) after “Part IX”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”;

(e) as if in regulation 8—

(i) in paragraph (1)—

(aa) after “regulation 9” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(bb) in sub-paragraph (e) after “Housing Benefit Regulations” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 by regulation 21 of those Regulations”;

(ii) in paragraph (2) after “to 60” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 23”;

(f) as if in regulation 9(1)(l) for “Part VII of the Act” there were substituted “Article 30A of the principal Order”;

(g) as if in regulation 10—

(i) in paragraph (1) after “Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees)” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(ii) in paragraph (6) after “2000” there were inserted “as applied for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 13”;

(h) as if in regulation 10A—

(i) after “Schedule A1”, wherever it occurs, there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(ii) in paragraph (1)(a) for “; and” there were substituted “.”;

(iii) paragraphs (1)(b) and (2) were omitted.

(2) Schedule A1 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

(a) as if for “housing benefit”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(b) as if for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

(c) as if for “benefit”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(d) as if “rent or”, wherever it occurs, were omitted;

(e) as if in paragraph 2(4) after “regulation 62(13)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”;

(f) as if paragraph 3(1) were omitted;

(g) as if in paragraph 4 after “Part V” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”;

(h) as if in paragraph 6 after “regulation 65” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”;

(i) as if in paragraph 7 after “Part VII” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(j) as if in paragraph 8—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2) after “regulation 71”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3) “and 74”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 30”;

(k) as if in paragraph 10 after “Schedule 9” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 29”.