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

Modification of Part VII and Schedule 8

21.—(1) Part VII of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (amount of 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 week”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief week”;

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

(d) as if after “Schedule 8”, 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 21”;

(e) as if in regulation 48—

(i) paragraph (a) were omitted;

(ii) in paragraph (b) for “those regulations” there were substituted “regulations 59 and 60 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 23”;

(f) as if regulation 49 were omitted;

(g) as if in regulation 50 after “Housing Benefit Regulations” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations 2007 by regulation 22 of those Regulations”;

(h) as if in regulation 51—

(i) in—

(aa) paragraph (1)(a)(i) after “regulation 56”;

(bb) paragraph (4) after “59(8)” and “Part VIII”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 23”;

(ii) in paragraph (4) after “and 63” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 25”;

(iii) in paragraph (6)(a)(ii) “rent or” and “or both” were omitted;

(i) as if regulation 52—

(i) in paragraph (2) for “Department” there were substituted “Department for Social Development”;

(ii) in paragraph (6) after “regulation 48” 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 regulation 53—

(i) in paragraph (1)—

(aa) after “regulation 48” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(bb) sub-paragraph (a)(i) and (b)(i) were omitted;

(cc) in sub-paragraphs (a)(ii) and (b)(ii) for “a rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(ii) in paragraph (2)—

(aa) sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) were omitted;

(bb) in sub-paragraphs (f) to (h) for “a rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(iii) in paragraph 6(a) after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”;

(iv) in paragraph 7(f) after “regulation 7” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(v) in paragraph (8)—

(aa) sub-paragraph (a) were omitted;

(bb) in sub-paragraph (b) for “rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(vi) in paragraph 10(b) and (c)—

(aa) after “regulation 37 of the Housing Benefit Regulations”;

(bb) after “Schedule 6 to those Regulations”,

there were inserted “as applied with modification for the purposes of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 by regulation 19 of those Regulations”;

(k) as if regulation 54 were omitted.

(2) Schedule 8 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (extended payments (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit) of 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 week”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief week”;

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

(d) as if in paragraph 2(2) “rent and”, in both places where it occurs, were omitted;

(e) as if in paragraph 2—

(i) in sub-paragraph (3) after “regulation 59(4)(c)”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (5) after “regulation 60(1)”,

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 paragraph 2(4) “rent or” were omitted;

(g) as if—

(i) in paragraph 2(4) after “regulation 51(6)(a)”;

(ii) in paragraph 5 after “regulation 51(1)”;

(iii) in paragraph 6(b)(i) after “regulation 51(6)(a)” and “and 53”;

(iv) in paragraph 7 after “regulation 48”;

(v) in paragraph 8 after “regulation 51(6)(a)” and “and 53”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(h) as if in paragraph 3 for “4 to 6” there were substituted “5 and 6”;

(i) as if paragraph 4 were omitted;

(j) as if in paragraph 5 for “rent and rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(k) as if in paragraph 6—

(i) “4(2) or” were omitted;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b)—

(aa) for “a rent and rates rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(bb) in head (i) “rent and” were omitted;

(cc) in head (i) for “regulations 11 to 14” there were substituted “regulations 11 and 12 of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 14”;

(dd) in head (i) “, or the rent allowance to which paragraph 4 refers, as the case maybe,” were omitted;

(l) as if in paragraph 8 for “whose housing benefit was in the form of a rate rebate only” there were substituted “who receives rate relief”;

(m) as if in paragraph 9 after “regulation 7(6)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”.