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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
HOUSING; RATES
Made
21st March 2003
Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1)
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 122(1)(d), 129(4), 132(3), 171(1) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1) and sections 1(1), 5(1)(b) and (c) and 165(1) and (5) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2) and now vested in it(3), and paragraphs 4(3) and (5) and 20(1)(b) of Schedule 7 to the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2000(4) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel(5), and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it(6), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation as follows –
(a)for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 3, on 31st March 2003, and
(b)for all other purposes on 1st April 2003.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(7) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2.—(1) The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(8) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph.
(2) In regulation 68 (date on which change of circumstances is to take effect) –
(a)in paragraph (1)(9) –
(i)“either” shall be omitted,
(ii)for “paragraphs (2) to (8)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (1A) to (8)”.
(b)After paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –
“(1A) Where –
(a)the change of circumstances in question is –
(i)the commencement of entitlement to a working tax credit or a child tax credit under the Tax Credits Act 2002(10) on 6th April 2003, or
(ii)the end, on 7th April 2003, of a period for which an award of a working families' tax credit or a disabled person’s tax credit is payable, and
(b)that change of circumstances would not, but for this paragraph, take effect on 7th April 2003,
that change of circumstances shall take effect on 7th April 2003.”.
3. In regulation 3(3) of the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(11) (amendment of regulation 72 of the principal regulations) for “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” there shall be substituted “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 21st March 2003.
L.S.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby consents to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 24th March 2003.
L.S.
Rodney Scott
Senior Officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.
Regulation 2(2) provides for the date on which the changes of circumstances occasioned by the abolition of working families' tax credit and disabled person’s tax credit and the introduction of working tax credit and child tax credit are to take effect for the purposes of determining entitlement to housing benefit.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 3(3) of the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 to provide for the date of claim in a case to a claim for housing benefit where the income-based jobseeker’s allowance is claimed but there is no entitlement.
These Regulations do not impose any charge on business.
1992 c. 7; section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)
See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992
S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 334, S.R. 1999 No. 416, S.R. 2001 No. 215 and S.R. 2003 No. 80
Paragraph (1) was amended by regulation 6(a) of S.R. 1999 No. 416 and regulation 8(a)(i) of S.R. 2001 No. 215
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