Amendment of Schedule 3 to the General Regulations

18.  In Schedule 3 to the General Regulations (housing costs)—

(a) in paragraph 1 there shall be inserted after sub-paragraph (a) the following sub-paragraph—

“(aa) interest payments under a hire purchase agreement to buy the dwelling occupied as a home;”;

(b) in paragraph 7(3) for the reference“(4) to (6)” there shall be substituted the reference“(3A) to (6)”;

(c) after paragraph 7(3) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—

“(3A) For the purpose of this paragraph any reference to a loan includes a reference to payments specified in paragraph 1(aa).”;

(d) in paragraph 7(4), after the words“Subject to sub-paragraphs” there shall be inserted the reference“(3A),”;

(e) in paragraph 7(5), (6) and (7), for the reference“sub-paragraph (3)” in each place it occurs there shall be substituted the words“sub-paragraphs (3) and (3A)”;

(f) in paragraph 8(4), for the reference“or 20” there shall be substituted the reference“, 20 or 22 to 34”.