The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 No. 3

Amendments of the Housing Benefits (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) N.I.

4.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of “member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom” in paragraph (a)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (i) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with section 65(3) of the Act”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (ia) omit “at the higher rate in accordance with regulation 6 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 4 in operation at 27.1.2025, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

S.R. 2006 No. 406. The definition of a “member of a couple who cannot share a bedroom” was inserted by S.R. 2017 No. 70 and amended by S.I. 2022/177; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant