The Social Security (Payments to Reduce Under-occupation) Regulations 2000

Citation, commencement, expiry and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Payments to Reduce Under-occupation) Regulations 2000.

(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 3rd April 2000 and shall cease to have effect on 31st March 2003.

(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “designated office” has the same meaning as in the Housing Benefit Regulations;

• “Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1);

• “ineligible service charges” means those amounts referred to in regulation 10(3)(a), (b) and (c) of, and determined in accordance with Schedule 1 to, the Housing Benefit Regulations;

• “payment” means a payment to reduce under-occupation in accordance with these Regulations;

• “rent” means all those payments in respect of a dwelling specified in regulation 10(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations subject to any apportionment in accordance with paragraphs (4) and (5) of that regulation and, in relation to any year in which there is or will be a rent-free period (as referred to in regulation 70 of the Housing Benefit Regulations), the rent shall be averaged over 52 weeks.

(4) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—

(a) to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in, or the Schedule to, these Regulations bearing that number;

(b) in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number.

(1)

S.I. 1987/1971.