The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2003

PART 1 General

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) (Abolition of Benefit Periods) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of Parts 1 and 3, on 16th June 2003; and

(b) for all other purposes on 6th October 2003 immediately after the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2003(1).

(2) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000(2);

“appropriate relevant authority” has the same meaning as in paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Act;

“benefit period” has the same meaning as in regulation 66 of the Housing Benefit Regulations and regulation 57 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations as in force immediately before 6th October 2003;

“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992(3);

“Housing Act functions” has the same meaning as in section 136(1) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(4);

“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(5);

“the qualifying age for state pension credit” means (in accordance with section 1(2)(b) and (6) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002(6))—

(a)

in the case of a woman, pensionable age; or

(b)

in the case of a man, the age which is pensionable age in the case of a woman born on the same day as the man; and

“state pension credit” means state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002.

(1)

S.I. 2003/325.

(2)

2000 c. 19.

(3)

S.I. 1992/1814.

(4)

1992 c. 5.

(5)

S.I. 1987/1971.

(6)

2002 c. 16.