The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013

The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 U.K.

94.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “service user group”, after paragraph (f) insert—

“(fa) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in consequence of a function under Part 8 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012,

(fb) a clinical commissioning group in consequence of a function under section 14Z2 of the National Health Service Act 2006,

(fc) the National Health Service Commissioning Board in consequence of a function under section 13Q of the National Health Service Act 2006,”.

(3) In regulation 38(2)(d) (earnings of self-employed earners)—

(a) after paragraph (iv) insert—

“(iva) a clinical commissioning group established under section 14D of the National Health Service Act 2006;

(ivb) the National Health Service Commissioning Board; or”, and

(b) omit paragraph (v) (together with the “or” following it).

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2006/214. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2008/3157 and S.I. 2009/2655.