The Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations

3.—(1) The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph.

(2) In regulation 68B (date on which change of circumstances is to take effect)(2) after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –

“(7A) Where the change of circumstances is an amendment of these Regulations as they apply to persons to whom regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (housing benefit regulations), that change, subject to regulation 69(7) (calculation of weekly amounts), shall take effect as follows –

(a) where the amendment is made by an order under section 132 of the Administration Act (annual up-rating of benefits)(3) –

(i) in a case in which the claimant’s weekly amount of eligible rent falls to be calculated in accordance with regulation 69(2)(b), from 1st April;

(ii) in any other case, from the first Monday in April,

in the year in which that order comes into operation;

(b) in respect of any other amendment from the date on which the amendment of these Regulations comes into operation in the particular case,

and references in this paragraph to these Regulations are to these Regulations as modified in their application to those persons.”.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 461

(2)

Regulation 68B was inserted by regulation 13(4) of S.R. 2003 No. 197 and amended by regulation 2(9)(b) of S.R. 2003 No. 418

(3)

1992 c. 8