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The Secretaries of State for Education and Skills and for Work and Pensions Order 2002

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Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1814)

21.—(1) The Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1)(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “appropriate social security office”, for the words from “Department of Social Security” to the end there is substituted “Department for Work and Pensions which is normally open to the public for the receipt of claims for income support or a jobseeker’s allowance”.

(3) In regulation 84(3)(2) (recoverable excess benefit)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (c), for paragraphs (i) to (iii) there is substituted—

(i)the Department for Work and Pensions; or

(ii)the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and

(b)in sub-paragraph (d), for “either Department” there is substituted “the Department”.

(4) In regulation 92(1)(j) (information to be supplied by the Secretary of State to an appropriate authority), for “appropriate DSS office” there is substituted “appropriate social security office”.

(1)

The definition of “appropriate social security office” was amended by the Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Supply of Information (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/1510) reg. 24 and modified by the Transfer of Functions (Education and Employment) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2986) art. 6(5).

(2)

Regulation 84(3) was substituted by the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals and Discretionary Financial Assistance) (Consequential Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1605) reg. 9(1).

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