PART 2 Amendment of Housing Benefit Regulations and Council Tax Benefit Regulations

Amendment of regulation 11 of the Housing Benefit Regulations

4.  In regulation 11(6)(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (maximum rent)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “benefit period” there shall be substituted “award of housing benefit”; and

(b) for the words after sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted—

“then—

(i) the maximum rent shall not be reduced, where the sum is not less than the maximum rent, during a period ending on the effective date of a decision adopting a determination of a rent officer where that determination was made in exercise of the Housing Act functions pursuant to an application by the authority under regulation 12A(1)(c), (d) or (e); and

(ii) the maximum rent shall be reduced to an amount equal to that sum, where that sum is less than the maximum rent during a period ending on the effective date of a decision adopting a determination of a rent officer where that determination was made in exercise of the Housing Act functions pursuant to an application by the authority under regulation 12A(1)(c), (d) or (e).”.

(1)

Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2003/1338.