PART 4Membership of a family

Modification of Part IVI116

Part IV of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (membership of a family) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

a

as if for “benefit week”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief week”;

b

as if in regulation 17(1) and (3)—

i

after “section 133(1) of the Act” and “section 138 of the Act” there were inserted “as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 15”;

ii

“as it applies to housing benefit” were omitted;

c

as if in regulation 17(3) for “that Act” there were substituted “the Act”;

d

as if in regulation 18(1) after “regulation 17(3)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 16”;

e

as if in regulation 19(1) after “regulation 18” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 16”.