The Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

Person treated as a person affected by a decision

3.—(1) For the purposes of Schedule 7 to the Act and subject to paragraph (2), a person is to be treated as a person affected by a relevant decision of a relevant authority where that person is—

(a) a claimant;

(b) in the case of a person who is liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling and is unable for the time being to act—

(i) a controller appointed by the High Court with power to claim or, as the case may be, receive benefit on his behalf, or

(ii) an attorney, with a general power or a power to receive benefit, appointed by the person liable to make those payments under the Powers of Attorney Act (Northern Ireland) 1971(1) or the Enduring Powers of Attorney (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(2);

(c) a person appointed by the relevant authority under regulation 71(3) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (appointments for persons unable to act);

(d) a person from whom the relevant authority determines that an overpayment is recoverable in accordance with Part XIII of the Housing Benefit Regulations, or

(e) a landlord or agent acting on behalf of that landlord and that decision is made under regulation 93(3) or 94(4) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (circumstances in which payment is or may be made to a landlord).

(2) Paragraph (1) only applies in relation to a person referred to in paragraph (1) where the rights, duties or obligations of that person are affected by a relevant decision.

(1)

1971 c. 33 (N.I.)

(2)

S.I. 1987/1627 (N.I. 16)

(3)

Regulation 93 was amended by regulation 16 of S.R. 1996 No. 334, regulation 7(g) of S.R. 1996 No. 448, regulation 11 of S.R. 1997 No. 22 and regulation 2 of S.R. 1997 No. 452

(4)

Regulation 94 was amended by regulation 10 of S.R. 1994 No. 335, regulation 7 of S.R. 1996 No. 181, regulation 7(g) of S.R. 1996 No. 448, regulation 12 of S.R. 1997 No. 22 and regulation 3 of S.R. 1997 No. 452