The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) (No. 2) Order 1993

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

3. PART II HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY

   1. 2. Interpretation of Part II

   2. 3. Amount of housing benefit subsidy

   3. 4. Rebates and allowances

   4. 5. Backdated benefit

   5. 6. Disproportionate rent increase

   6. 7. Treatment of high rents

   7. 8. Rent officers' determinations

   8. 9. Treatment of certain residential accommodation

   9. 10. Homeless cases

   10. 11. Overpayment of rebates or allowances

   11. 12. Additions to housing benefit subsidy

   12. 13. Deductions to be made in calculating housing benefit subsidy in respect of rebates or allowances

   13. 14. Deduction from housing benefit subsidy

   14. 15. Modification of housing benefit subsidy on payments in excess of entitlement

4. PART III COMMUNITY CHARGE BENEFIT SUBSIDY

   1. 16. Interpretation of Part III

   2. 17. Amount of community charge benefit subsidy

   3. 18. Community charge benefit

   4. 19. Backdated benefit

   5. 20. Excess community charge benefits

   6. 21. Addition to community charge benefit subsidy

   7. 22. Deductions to be made in calculating subsidy in respect of community charge benefit

   8. 23. Deduction from community charge benefit subsidy

5. PART IV Revocation

   1. 24. The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1993...

6. Signature

7. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      CALCULATION OF HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF ADMINISTRATION COSTS

      1. PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION

         1. 1. (1) The additional sum which may be paid to an...

      2. PART II APPLICABLE AND FURTHER AMOUNTS

         1. 2. Housing benefit applicable amount

         2. 3. Further amount

         3. 4. Calculation of amounts for Scottish housing authorities

         4. 5. Where the total of the housing benefit applicable and further...

         5. 6. Where, in the case of a Scottish housing authority, Y...

         6. 7. Until such time as the housing benefit applicable and further...

      3. PART III SUPPLEMENTARY AMOUNT

         1. 8. Supplementary amount

         2. 9. Except in respect of Corby new town corporation, where the...

         3. 10. Where the total of the supplementary amounts calculated in accordance...

         4. 11. Where the supplementary amount for an appropriate authority as further...

         5. 12. Until such time as the aggregate of the authorities' supplementary...

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      CALCULATION OF COMMUNITY CHARGE BENEFIT SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF ADMINISTRATION COSTS

      1. PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION

         1. 1. (1) The additional sum which may be paid to an...

      2. PART II APPLICABLE AND FURTHER AMOUNTS

         1. 2. Community charge benefit applicable amount

         2. Further amount

         3. 4. Calculation of Applicable and Further Amounts

         4. 5. Where the total of all the housing benefit amounts calculated...

         5. 6. Where, in the case of an appropriate authority–

         6. 7. Until the community charge benefit amounts under this Part as...

      3. PART III APPLICABLE AND FURTHER AMOUNTS FOR SCOTTISH AUTHORITIES WHO ONLY ADMINISTER COMMUNITY CHARGE BENEFIT

         1. 8. Community charge benefit applicable amount

         2. 9. Further amount

         3. 10. Calculation of Applicable and Further Amounts

         4. 11. Where the total of the community charge benefit amounts as...

         5. 12. Where, in the case of the appropriate authority, Ω (being...

         6. 13. Until the community charge benefit amounts under this Part as...

      4. PART IV SUPPLEMENTARY AMOUNT

         1. 14. Subject to paragraphs 15 to 18, for the purposes of...

         2. 15. Where the supplementary amount for an appropriate authority as calculated...

         3. 16. Where the total of the supplementary amounts calculated in accordance...

         4. 17. Where the supplementary amount for an appropriate authority as further...

         5. 18. Until such time as the aggregate of the authorities' supplementary...

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF CERTAIN AUTHORITIES IN SCOTLAND

   4. SCHEDULE 4

      CALCULATION OF DEDUCTIONS FROM HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY AND COMMUNITY CHARGE BENEFIT SUBSIDY IN RESPECT OF PERIOD OVERRUNS

      1. PART I GENERAL AND INTERPRETATION

         1. 1. In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires– “period overrun”...

      2. PART II DEDUCTIONS

         1. 2. The percentage referred to in article 4(3)(a) for an appropriate...

         2. 3. The percentage referred to in article 4(3)(b) for an appropriate...

         3. 4. The percentage referred to in article 18(2) for an appropriate...

      3. PART III CALCULATIONS AND TABLE

         1. 5. (1) In the heading to column 1 in the Table...

   5. SCHEDULE 5

      THRESHOLD ABOVE WHICH REDUCED HOUSING BENEFIT SUBSIDY IS PAYABLE ON RENT ALLOWANCES

   6. SCHEDULE 6

      RENT OFFICERS' DETERMINATIONS

      1. 1. Calculation of the appropriate amount

      2. 2. Rent officers' reasonable market rent determination

      3. 3. Subject to paragraph 6, where the rent officer determines a...

      4. 4. Rent officers' reasonable market rent and size determination

      5. 5. No restriction on unreasonable rents or on rent increases

      6. 6. Modification where rent is inclusive of domestic rates

      7. 7. Failure to apply for a rent officer’s determination

      8. Relevant date 8.

      9. 9. Termination date

      10. 10. Apportionment

      11. 11. Interpretation

   7. SCHEDULE 7

      AMOUNT BY REFERENCE TO WHICH APPROPRIATE MAXIMUM AMOUNT IS DETERMINED

   8. SCHEDULE 8

      PRESCRIBED CASELOAD AND CLAIMS FIGURES

   9. SCHEDULE 9

      PRESCRIBED FIGURES FOR THE CALCULATION OF THE APPLICABLE AND THE SUPPLEMENTARY AMOUNTS

   10. SCHEDULE 10

       COST ADJUSTMENT FIGURES

8. Explanatory Note