The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Modification of regulations 3 to 6

3.  Regulations 3 to 6 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as they apply for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

(a)as if in regulation 3—

(i)for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

(ii)in paragraph (2)(c) after “regulation 19” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 16”;

(iii)in paragraph (3) after “regulation 9(1)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(iv)in paragraph (4)—

(aa)after “regulation 9” there were inserted “regulation 9 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(bb)the definition of “communal area” in Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations were applied for the purposes of the application of regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations to these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations;

(b)as if regulation 4 were omitted;

(c)as if in regulation 6(6) for “benefit week” there were substituted “rate relief week”.