Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance and Information Sharing) Amendment Regulations 20074
1
The Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance and Information Sharing) Amendment Regulations 20077 shall be amended as follows.
2
In regulation 3 (amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 relating to information sharing)—
a
in paragraph (1)(b), in the inserted paragraph (4A) for “regulation 114A(6)” substitute “regulation 114A(5)”; and
b
in paragraph (2), in paragraph (1)(b) of the inserted regulation 114A for “regulation 12A” substitute “regulation 12D”.
3
In regulation 4(1)(g) (amendments to regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006) for the inserted definition of “registered housing association” substitute—
“registered housing association” means a housing association which—
and “the Corporation” has the same meaning as in section 56 of the Housing Act 1996;
4
In regulation 7 (insertion of regulations 13C, 13D and 13E into the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006)—
a
in the inserted regulation 13C(5) for “falling within any of paragraphs 4 to 10” substitute “mentioned in any of paragraphs 4 to 11”; and
b
in the inserted regulation 13D(2)(b) after “size criteria” insert “as set out in paragraph (3)”.
5
In regulation 8 (substitution of regulation 14 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006), in the substituted paragraph 14—
a
in paragraph (1)(f)—
i
for “or (e)” substitute “, (e) or (h)”; and
ii
in paragraph (ii) omit “or”; and
b
after paragraph (1)(g) add—
or
h
has received notification that any of the circumstances in regulation 13C(5) apply.
c
in paragraph (8) omit the definition of “the Corporation”.
6
In regulation 19 (amendment of Schedules 7 and 8 to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006) for “paragraph 3(2)” substitute “paragraph 3(3)”.