16. Part IV of the Housing Benefit Regulations (membership of a family) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit 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) 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”;
(c)as if in regulation 17(1) and (3) “as it applies to housing benefit” were omitted;
(d)as if in regulation 17(3) for “that Act” there were substituted “the Act”;
(e)as if in regulation 18(1) after “regulation 17(3)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 16”;
(f)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”.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 16 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)