Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations2

1

The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20066 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of “young individual”7

a

in paragraphs (b) and (c) for “22 years” substitute “25 years”;

b

for paragraph (e) substitute—

e

who has attained the age of 16 years and to whom paragraph (1A) applies;

c

after paragraph (e) insert—

ea

who has attained the age of 25 years and to whom paragraph (1C) applies;