Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations
2. In regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home)(1) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(4A) Where a person is required by a court to reside in a dwelling which is a hostel, he shall not be treated as occupying that dwelling as his home.”.
(1)
S.R. 1987 No. 461, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations