The Housing Benefit (Abolition of Benefit Periods Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Saving provision for extended payments

26.—(1) Paragraph (2) shall apply where a person or his partner is –

(a) treated as having made a claim under regulation 62A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (extended payments) before 5th April 2004, or

(b) in receipt of an extended payment under that regulation on 5th April 2004.

(2) Where paragraph (1) applies –

(a) subject to sub-paragraph (b), regulation 62A and Schedule 5A shall apply to him as in force immediately before 5th April 2004;

(b) sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (5) of regulation 62A shall have effect as if after “beneficiary”, in each place where it occurs, there were inserted “or his partner”, and

(c) sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (5) of regulation 62A shall have effect as if for “deemed to be” until the end of that sub-paragraph there were substituted “treated as having been made in respect of a period beginning immediately after the end of the benefit period”.