The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 5) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of regulation 7A of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 7A of the principal Regulations (persons from abroad)(1)—

(a) in paragraph (1) at the end there shall be added “but this paragraph shall not have effect in respect of a person to whom and for a period to which regulation 7B (entitlement of a refugee to housing benefit) and Schedule A1 (treatment of claims for housing benefit by refugees) apply(2)”;

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

“(ii) a refugee;”;

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

• ““refugee” in this regulation, regulation 7B and Schedule A1, 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(3).”.

(1)

Regulation 7A was inserted by regulation 2(1) of S.R. 1994 No. 80 and amended by regulation 3(1)(a) of S.R. 1994 No. 266 and regulation 5(d) of S.R. 1996 No. 11 and saved by section 11 to the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996

(2)

Regulation 7B and Schedule A1 are inserted by regulations 3 and 6 of these Regulations

(3)

Cmd. 9171