Social Security Act 1985

22 Housing benefits-subsidy

(1) In section 32 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 (subsidy)—

(a) the following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2)—

“(a) in the case of an authority granting rebates or allowances under the statutory scheme during that year or any part of it, the rebates or allowances so granted, subject to any prescribed deductions;

(b) in the case of an authority granting rebates or allowances under a local scheme during that year or any part of it, the rebates or allowances which, if the local scheme had not been in force, would have been granted by the authority under the statutory scheme during that year or that part of it, subject to any prescribed deductions ; and”;

(b) at the end of that subsection there shall be added (but not as part of paragraph (c)) the words " but shall be subject, in so far as it falls to be calculated in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b) above, to deduction of any amount which the Secretary of State considers it unreasonable to meet out of money provided by way of subsidy under subsection (1) above."; and

(c) at the end of subsection (3) there shall be added (but not as part of paragraph (c)) the words " after any deduction has been made by virtue of subsection (2) above or an order under that subsection.".

(2) The amendments made by subsection (1)(b) and (c) above shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st April 1985.