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

Modification of Part II and Schedule A1

11.—(1) Part II of the Housing Benefit 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 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) paragraphs (3) and (4) “(including payments of mortgage interest or analogous payments)” were omitted;

(ii) in paragraphs (3) and (6)(b) 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”;

(iii) in paragraph (8)(c)(ii) after “Schedule 4” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”;

(iv) in paragraph (9)—

(aa) in sub-paragraph (a) after “regulation 81” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

(bb) in sub-paragraph (b) after “Part X” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

(e) as if in regulation 8—

(i) in paragraph (1)—

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

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

(ii) in paragraph (2) after “regulation 77 to 79” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 24”;

(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 Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(ii) paragraph (6) after “2000” there were inserted “as applied with modifications 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 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 Regulations 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 “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 81(12)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

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

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

(h) as if in paragraph 6 after “regulation 84” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

(i) as if in paragraph 7 after “Part VIII” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 22”;

(j) as if in paragraph 8—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2) after “regulation 90”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3) “and 93”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(k) as if in paragraph 10 after “Schedule 10” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 30”.