Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend regulation 4(3) of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003, which inserted paragraph (6C).

Regulation 2 substitutes words in the new paragraph (6C) of regulation 4 of the Housing Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 so as to cite provisions in the Social Security Order 1998 (S.R. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)) relating to revisions, supersessions and appeals.

These Regulations do not impose a cost on business.