The Council Tax Benefit and Housing Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Amendment of regulation 7A of the Housing Benefit Regulations

8.—(1) Regulation 7A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (persons from abroad)(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs —

(a) in paragraph (1) at the end there shall be added the words, “but this paragraph shall not have effect in respect of a person to whom and for a period to which regulation 7B and Schedule A1 apply.”;

(b) for head (ii) in paragraph (4)(e) there shall be substituted the following head —

“(ii) a refugee;”;

(c) in paragraph (7) the following definition shall be added at the end —

““refugee” in this regulation, regulation 7B (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit) and Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees), means a person recorded by the Secretary of State as a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees(2).”.

(1)

Regulation 7A was inserted by S.I. 1994/470, amended by S.I. 1994/1807, 1996/30 and 1510 and saved by section 11 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 (c. 49).

(2)

Cmd. 9171.