Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations5

In Schedule 3 to the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200627 (transitional and savings provisions) in paragraph 5(2) in regulation 14(3) as set out in that paragraph—

a

in sub-paragraph (c) omit “or”; and

b

after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

ca

has limited capability for work within the meaning of section 1(4) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007;

cb

is treated as not having limited capability for work in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 1(a) of Schedule 2 to that Act (employment and support allowance: supplementary provisions); or