The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998

PART IV E+W+S TRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS

Provisions for claims for 1997/98 E+W+S

F1 22.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 22 omitted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2957), arts. 1(1), 2(2)

Transitional provisions in relation to rent officer determinations E+W+S

23.—(1) In the relevant year commencing on 1st April 1997, the expression “property-specific rent less ineligible amounts" in both paragraph 17(1) of Schedule 4 and paragraph 13(1) of Schedule 6 to the 1997 Order has effect as if after the words “(“ineligible payments")", there were inserted the words “ or, in the case of a determination prior to 2nd October 1995, the authority is of the opinion that the exceptionally high rent did not include ineligible payments, ”.

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Textual Amendments

F2 Art. 23(2) omitted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(3) of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Electronic Communications) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/26), arts. 1(1), 3(2)

Modifications of exemption from improvements rule E+W+S

24.—(1) This article applies in the case of a new authority, a 1997 authority or a 1998 authority, as the case may be, and, in these cases, the modifications set out in paragraph (2) shall apply.

(2) In relation to the relevant year commencing on—

(a) 1st April 1997, in the case of a—

(i) new authority, for the words “or in the two years preceding that year" in article 19(2)(c) there shall be substituted the words “ or in the year preceding that year ”;

(ii) 1997 authority, the words “or in the two years preceding that year" shall be omitted from article 19(2)(c);

(b) 1st April 1998, in the case of a—

(i) 1997 authority, for the words “or in the two years preceding that year" in article 19(2)(c) there shall be substituted the words “ or in the year preceding that year ”;

(ii) 1998 authority, the words “or in the two years preceding that year" shall be omitted from article 19(2)(c);

(c) 1st April 1999, in the case of a 1998 authority, for the words “or in the two years preceding that year" in article 19(2)(c) there shall be substituted the words “ or in the year preceding that year ”.