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

Modification of Part VII N.I.

21.  Subject to regulation 9 (exclusions from rate relief), Part VII of the Housing Benefit Regulations (students) 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 week” and “benefit weeks”, wherever they occur, there were substituted “rate relief week” and “rate relief weeks” respectively;

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

(d) as if in regulation 50(1) and (2)(a) and regulation 51 after “this Part” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(e) as if in regulation 50(1) in the definition of “grant” after “Schedule 6” and “Schedule 7” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 19”;

(f) as if in regulation 51 after “IV” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulations 11, 14 and 16 ”;

(g) as if regulation 54—

(i) in paragraph (1) for “(2) to (4)” there were substituted “(3) and (4)”;

(ii) paragraph (2) were omitted;

(iii) in paragraph (4)(a) and (b) after “53(2)” and “(j)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(h) as if in regulations 56(7) and 57(3) after “60(2)” and “56(2)(g)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(i) as if in regulation 58 after “to (e)” and “and (3)”, in the both places where they occur, there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

(j) as if in regulations 59 and 63(3) after “Schedule 6” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 19”;

(k) as if—

(i) in regulation 60(1) after “regulation 61”, “56(2)”, in the first place where it occurs, and “61(5)”;

(ii) in regulation 63(1) after “or (3)”,

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

(l) as if in regulations 63(4) and 66(4)—

(i) “eligible rent” had the same meaning as in the Housing Benefit Regulations;

(ii) after “regulation 72” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 22”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 21 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)