The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Modification of Part XII N.I.

31.  Part XII of the Housing Benefit Regulations (payments) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit Regulations with the modifications set out in the following paragraphs—

(a) as if for “housing benefit”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(b) as if for “dwelling”, wherever it occurs, there were substituted “hereditament”;

F1 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) as if in regulation 87—

(i) in paragraph (1) for “89 to 95” there were substituted “91 to 95 of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(ii) in paragraph (2) for “that benefit” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(iii) in paragraph (3) for “89 to 94” there were substituted “91 to 94 of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(e) as if regulations 88, 89 and 90 were omitted;

(f) as if in regulation 91—

(i) paragraphs (1) and (3) were omitted;

(ii) in paragraph (2)—

(aa) for “rent allowance or rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(bb) after “or (5)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

(g) as if in regulation 92—

(i) in paragraph (1)—

(aa) after “Schedule A1” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(bb) for “rent allowance or rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(cc) “rent or” were omitted;

(dd) for “allowance or rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(ee) in sub-paragraph (b) “rent or” were omitted;

(ii) in paragraph (2)—

(aa) for “rent allowance”, in each place where it occurs, there were substituted “rate relief”;

(bb) after “regulation 93” there shall be inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(cc) “rent or” and “or both” shall be omitted;

[F2 (iia) as if paragraph (2A) were omitted;]

(iii) in paragraph (3) for “rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(iv) in paragraph (4) for “rent allowance or rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(h) as if in regulation 93—

(i) in paragraph (1)—

(aa) after “Schedule A1” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 11”;

(bb) after “regulation 92” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(cc) for “a rent allowance or rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(dd) in sub-paragraph (c) for “allowance or rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”, “rent or” were omitted and for “of rent” there were substituted “of rates”;

(ii) paragraph (2) were omitted;

(iii) in paragraph (3) for “rent allowance or rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(iv) in paragraph (4)—

(aa) “or (2)” were omitted;

(bb) for “a rate rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(v) in paragraph (5) after “regulation 92” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(i) as if in regulation 94—

(i) in paragraph (3) for “benefit” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(ii) in paragraph (5)—

(aa) for “a rent allowance or rate rebate” and “allowance or rebate” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(bb) after “or 93” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 31”;

(cc) “rent or” were omitted;

(j) as if in regulation 95—

(i) in paragraph (2) after “regulation 101(1)”;

(ii) in paragraph (3) after “regulation 96”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 33”.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 31(c) omitted (1.7.2010) by The Rate Relief (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/194), regs. 1, 2(11)

F2 Reg. 31(g)(iia) inserted (9.11.2009) by (S.R. 2009/339), Regs. 1, 2(9)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 31 in operation at 1.4.2007, see reg. 1(1)