The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Housing benefit: Exempt accommodation

6.  In regulation 10 of the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995(1) (which makes savings in relation to persons entitled to housing benefit before those Regulations came into force), in paragraph (6), in the definition of“exempt accommodation” for sub-paragraph (i) there is substituted—

(i)a resettlement place provided by persons to whom the Secretary of State has given assistance by way of grant pursuant to section 30 of the Jobseekers Act 1995(2) (grants for resettlement places); and for this purpose “resettlement place” shall have the same meaning as it has in that section; or.

(1)

S.I. 1995/1644.