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

Modification of regulations 3 to 6 N.I.

3.  Regulations 3 to 6 of the Housing Benefit Regulations shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as they apply for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations with the following modifications—

(a) as if in regulation 3—

(i) for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

(ii) in paragraph (2)(c) after “regulation 19” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 16”;

(iii) in paragraph (3) after “regulation 9(1)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(iv) in paragraph (4)—

[F1 (aa) for “, regulations 9 and 14(6)(c) and the definition of “linked person” in regulation 2(1)” there were substituted “and regulation 9 of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;]

(bb) the definition of “communal area” in Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit Regulations were applied for the purposes of the application of regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit Regulations to these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations;

(b) as if regulation 4 were omitted;

F2 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) as if in regulation 6(6) for “benefit week” there were substituted “rate relief week”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3(a)(iv)(aa) substituted (9.11.2009) byThe Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. 2009/339)regs. 1, 2(3)

F2 Reg. 3(c) omitted (1.7.2010) by The Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) (S.R. 2010/194), regs 1, 2(3)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)