The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1991

Modification where rent is inclusive of domestic rates

7.  Where—

(a) before 1st April 1990 the rent officer had determined a reasonable market or a comparable rent for suitably sized accommodation, as the case may be; and

(b) an amount was deducted from the eligible rent under regulation 10(3)(a) and (6) of the Housing Benefit Regulations as in force immediately before 1st April 1990 in respect of domestic rates, the reasonable market rent or, as the case may be, the comparable rent for suitably sized accommodation used as the basis of the calculation in paragraphs 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this Schedule, as the case may be, shall be increased by an amount equivalent to the amounts so deducted from the eligible rent in respect of domestic rates in respect of the period beginning on the relevant date and ending on the termination date.