The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Amendment of Regulations

2.  In paragraph 11A of Schedule 1A to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (excluded tenancies - property acquired by social landlords)(1)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a) after “the Housing Act 1985” there shall be added “or section 12 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987”(2);

(b) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) after “the Housing Act 1985” there shall be added “or section 12 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987”; and

(c) in sub-paragraph (1)(c) after “Part III of that Act” there shall be added “or in respect of which the house has been acquired under the right conferred by Part III of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988”(3).

(d) in sub-paragraph (1)(d) after “disposal under those Regulations” there is added “or in respect of a dwelling disposed of pursuant to powers contained in the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968(4) to a housing association”.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971. Schedule 1A was inserted by S.I. 1990/546. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1992/432 (which inserted paragraph 11A), S.I. 1997/852 (which substituted heads (i) and (ii) in sub-paragraph (2)(b) of paragraph 11A) and S.I. 2002/2322 (which inserted sub-paragraph (3)).

(2)

1987 c. 26.

(3)

1988 c. 43.

(4)

1968 c. 16. Relevant amendments are contained in the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 35) section 33.