The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

PART 3 Payments in respect of a hereditament

Modification of Part III

14.  Part III of the Housing Benefit Regulations (payments in respect of a dwelling) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations with the following modifications—

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

(b) as if for “housing benefit” and “that benefit”, wherever they occur, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(c) as if for “benefit week” and “benefit weeks”, wherever they occur, there were substituted “rate relief week” and “rate relief weeks” respectively;

(d) as if in regulation 11 (eligible housing costs)—

(i) in paragraph (1)—

(aa) for “regulations 12(1) and 13(1)” there were substituted “regulation 12(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 14”;

(bb) for “Part VIII” to the end of paragraph (1) there were substituted “Part VIII of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 22 by reference to the amount of his eligible rates determined in accordance with regulation 12(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications by regulation 14.”;

(ii) paragraph (3) were omitted;

(e) as if in regulation 12 (rates)—

(i) in paragraph (1) “in the form of a rate rebate” were omitted;

(ii) in paragraph (2) after “regulation 13(1)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations”;

(iii) in paragraph (6) after “regulation 53(1)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(f) as if regulations 13 to 16 and Schedules 1 to 3 were omitted.