Amendment of the Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20072

1

The Rate Relief (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20072 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (11).

2

Omit regulation 2(1)(q).

3

Omit regulation 3(c).

4

For regulation 11(1)(e)(i)(bb) substitute—

bb

in sub-paragraph (e) after “regulation 53(1)” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 21”;

5

Omit regulation 17(2)(f)(ii).

6

In regulation 19—

a

omit paragraph (1)(g);

b

in—

i

paragraph (1)(u)(ii); and

ii

paragraph (1)(u)(iii)(bb),

for “sub-paragraph (c)” substitute “sub-paragraph (d)” and for ““(d)” substitute ““(e)”;

c

in paragraph (2)(b) after “after” insert ““(e)”,”;

d

in paragraph (2)(c) substitute “paragraphs 2(i) and (ii) after “(e)”, “(j)”, and “(i)”” with “paragraph 2(b)(ii) after “(j)”, “(i)”, and “(k)””;

e

in paragraph (2)(e) omit “and (4)(a)”.

7

In regulation 22 omit paragraphs (1)(d), (2) and (3).

8

Omit regulation 24(f)(vi).

9

Omit regulation 26(1)(h)(ii).

10

In regulation 30—

a

for paragraph (1)(a) substitute—

a

as if in regulation 85(2) after “and 82” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 26”;

b

before paragraph (2)(d)(i) insert—

zi

after “70” and “71” insert “of the Housing Benefit Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 22”;

11

Omit regulation 31(c).