Amendment of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations

6.—(1) The Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) in the definition of “registered housing association”(1)—

(a) in paragraph (b) after “Housing Act 1996” add “or a registered social landlord within the meaning of Part 1 of that Act”; and

(b) in paragraph (c) after “Housing (Scotland) Act 2010” add “or a registered social landlord within the meaning of section 165 of that Act”.

(1)

The definition of “registered housing association” was substituted by S.I. 2010/671 and amended by S.I. 2012/700.