Amendment of regulation 16 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations49
In regulation 16 of the Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases Regulations, after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
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by way of rent payable to a housing association, as defined in section 1(1) of the Housing Associations Act 1985 M1, which is registered in accordance with section 5 of that Act, or to a local authority, on a free week basis, that is to say the basis that he pays an amount by way of rent for a given number of weeks in a 52 week period, with a lesser number of weeks in which there is no liability to pay (“free weeks”), the amount of such housing costs shall be the amount which he pays
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in the relevant week if it is not a free week; or
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in the last week before the relevant week which is not a free week, if the relevant week is a free week;