3Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations relating to qualifying parents or carers, parents of armed forces personnel who are away from home on operations or who have a child who cannot share a bedroom

4Amendment of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations relating to qualifying parents or carers, parents of armed forces personnel who are away from home on operations or who have a child who cannot share a bedroom

5Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations relating to the determination of the maximum rent (social sector)

6Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations relating to the determination of the maximum rent (social sector)

7Revocation

These Statutory Rules have been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2016 No. 258 and are being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Rules

2016 No. 326

Social Security

The Housing Benefit (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made12th September 2016

Laid before Parliament13th September 2016

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3).

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 122(1)(d), 129A(2), (3) and (4), 133(1) and (2)(h), and 171(1), (3), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19921, and Article 74(3) and (6) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 19982.

These powers are exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 4(1)(b) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 20153.