The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2013

Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 266

Social Security

The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2013

Made

11th February 2013

Laid before Parliament

13th February 2013

Coming into force

18th March 2013

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 140B(1), (3) and (4), 140C(1) and (4), 140F(2) and 189(1), (4), (5) and (7) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(1).

In accordance with section 189(8)(2) of that Act, the Secretary of State has obtained the consent of the Treasury.

In accordance with section 176(1)(3) of that Act, consultation has taken place with organisations appearing to the Secretary of State to be representative of the authorities concerned.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 2013 and comes into force on 18th March 2013.

(2) Article 2 has effect from 1st April 2011.

(3) Articles 3 and 4 have effect from 1st April 2012.

(4) In this Order “the 1998 Order” means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998(4).

Substitution of Schedule 1 to the 1998 Order having effect from 1st April 2011

2.  For Schedule 1(5) (sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy) to the 1998 Order substitute the Schedule in Schedule 1 to this Order.

Amendment of article 4 of the 1998 Order having effect from 1st April 2012

3.  In article 4(2)(c)(6) (requirement of claim) for “31st May” substitute “30th April”.

Amendment of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order having effect from 1st April 2012

4.—(1) Schedule 4A(7) (rent rebate limitation deductions (Housing Revenue Account dwellings)) to the 1998 Order is amended as follows.

(2) In Part 1 (interpretation)—

(a) before the definition of “dwelling” insert—

““Affordable Rent” means the rent payable to an authority in respect of a tenancy of a dwelling where the rent is set on the same basis as would have been case if the amount of rent were subject to a standard set by the Regulator of Social Housing under section 194 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008(8) (which requires the initial rent to be set at no more than 80% of local market rent (including service charges));

“Affordable Rent dwelling” means a dwelling which the authority has let on a tenancy for which it charges an Affordable Rent, and in relation to which either of the following applies—

(a)

the authority has entered into an agreement with a relevant party that the dwelling is one for which the authority will charge an Affordable Rent; or

(b)

the authority has received a written notice from a relevant party that the dwelling is one for which the authority charges an Affordable Rent;”; and

(b) after the definition of “new service” insert—

““relevant party” means—

(a)

the Homes and Communities Agency;

(b)

the Greater London Authority; or

(c)

the Secretary of State;”.

(3) In Part 2 (England) in paragraph 2 (liability to deduction) in sub-paragraph (5) after “void dwellings” insert “and dwellings which are Affordable Rent dwellings”.

(4) For Part 3 (weekly rent limits for purposes of Part 2: Authorities in England) substitute Part 3 as set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(5) For Part 5 (amounts for purposes of Part 4, paragraph 4: Authorities in Wales) substitute Part 5 as set out in Schedule 3 to this Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Freud

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

5th February 2013

We consent

Robert Goodwill

Desmond Swayne

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

11th February 2013

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 Schedule to be substituted for Schedule 1 to the 1998 Order

Article 12(1)(b)

“SCHEDULE 1 Sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy

RELEVANT YEAR 2011-12

Local authority	Administration subsidy (£)
Adur	£439,175.50
Allerdale	£751,146.02
Amber Valley	£892,766.68
Arun	£1,201,913.94
Ashfield	£1,016,410.52
Ashford	£804,575.52
Aylesbury Vale	£1,008,832.25
Babergh	£505,646.06
Barking & Dagenham	£2,355,347.04
Barnet	£3,001,735.86
Barnsley	£2,188,310.38
Barrow in Furness	£691,519.48
Basildon	£1,630,548.61
Basingstoke and Deane	£1,032,094.87
Bassetlaw	£915,190.15
Bath & North East Somerset	£1,203,574.41
Bedford	£1,417,478.67
Bexley	£1,684,870.10
Birmingham	£12,529,420.47
Blaby	£442,256.03
Blackburn with Darwen	£1,580,179.59
Blackpool	£1,980,061.53
Bolsover	£659,576.65
Bolton	£2,640,389.61
Boston	£527,920.72
Bournemouth	£1,922,412.37
Bracknell Forest	£705,031.55
Bradford	£5,382,793.05
Braintree	£1,115,765.43
Breckland	£953,887.10
Brent	£4,074,950.67
Brentwood	£397,071.28
Brighton and Hove	£3,295,111.16
Bristol	£4,879,289.22
Broadland	£630,339.37
Bromley	£2,084,035.16
Bromsgrove	£442,506.64
Broxbourne	£809,785.94
Broxtowe	£704,613.55
Burnley	£1,070,278.37
Bury	£1,622,266.28
Calderdale	£1,913,633.15
Cambridge	£1,298,088.99
Camden	£3,105,581.57
Cannock Chase	£775,543.13
Canterbury	£1,005,040.77
Carlisle	£778,221.38
Castle Point	£630,701.66
Central Bedfordshire	£1,535,915.06
Charnwood	£931,146.98
Chelmsford	£1,006,005.91
Cheltenham	£844,593.33
Cherwell	£954,476.23
Cheshire East	£2,236,014.16
Cheshire West and Chester	£2,324,239.13
Chesterfield	£977,029.14
Chichester	£737,102.61
Chiltern	£461,508.69
Chorley	£686,300.19
Christchurch	£349,569.87
City of London	£164,555.38
Colchester	£1,164,381.78
Copeland	£579,792.08
Corby	£600,137.08
Cornwall	£4,473,120.15
Cotswold	£504,098.71
Coventry	£3,353,818.17
Craven	£307,109.21
Crawley	£967,777.27
Croydon	£3,712,006.19
Dacorum	£1,015,970.63
Darlington	£1,028,851.89
Dartford	£656,534.54
Daventry	£425,671.99
Derby	£2,129,915.22
Derbyshire Dales	£342,722.28
Doncaster	£2,952,010.89
Dover	£940,977.91
Dudley	£2,692,228.01
Durham	£5,428,925.79
Ealing	£3,657,894.90
East Cambridgeshire	£492,254.00
East Devon	£804,594.07
East Dorset	£465,397.79
East Hampshire	£628,683.01
East Hertfordshire	£733,973.34
East Lindsey	£1,308,364.47
East Northamptonshire	£537,396.56
East Riding of Yorkshire	£2,323,146.88
East Staffordshire	£865,897.72
Eastbourne	£1,069,329.03
Eastleigh	£660,291.69
Eden	£273,973.65
Elmbridge	£670,510.94
Enfield	£3,498,604.58
Epping Forest	£769,792.23
Epsom and Ewell	£376,995.22
Erewash	£905,688.19
Exeter	£886,314.82
Fareham	£525,962.19
Fenland	£886,675.47
Forest Heath	£416,088.09
Forest of Dean	£601,449.12
Fylde	£461,814.90
Gateshead	£2,032,064.46
Gedling	£858,986.30
Gloucester	£1,140,529.18
Gosport	£728,722.05
Gravesham	£824,059.98
Great Yarmouth	£1,116,669.65
Greenwich	£3,159,902.57
Guildford	£813,925.70
Hackney	£4,429,331.97
Halton	£1,363,930.97
Hambleton	£480,336.70
Hammersmith and Fulham	£2,316,191.15
Harborough	£351,876.17
Haringey	£4,092,750.19
Harlow	£857,179.16
Harrogate	£880,477.78
Harrow	£2,195,376.04
Hart	£325,889.76
Hartlepool	£1,256,393.58
Hastings	£1,304,402.38
Havant	£974,554.30
Havering	£1,688,532.30
Herefordshire	£1,243,555.03
Hertsmere	£771,720.75
High Peak	£662,909.04
Hillingdon	£2,445,650.95
Hinckley and Bosworth	£597,473.07
Horsham	£599,751.24
Hounslow	£2,451,201.02
Huntingdonshire	£1,009,618.19
Hyndburn	£895,045.08
Ipswich	£1,162,964.26
Isle of Wight	£1,470,858.58
Isles of Scilly	£6,263.81
Islington	£3,667,964.39
Kensington and Chelsea	£2,116,974.05
Kettering	£652,870.75
King’s Lynn & West Norfolk	£1,186,115.39
Kingston upon Hull	£3,338,525.26
Kingston upon Thames	£1,131,117.97
Kirklees	£4,329,219.23
Knowsley	£2,037,850.92
Lambeth	£4,760,248.36
Lancaster	£1,075,951.54
Leeds	£6,795,005.96
Leicester	£3,504,338.12
Lewes	£683,366.10
Lewisham	£4,437,401.08
Lichfield	£581,267.67
Lincoln	£893,900.98
Liverpool	£7,590,852.30
Luton	£1,779,194.94
Maidstone	£953,916.61
Maldon	£386,514.38
Malvern Hills	£438,085.65
Manchester	£6,332,090.29
Mansfield	£1,000,396.88
Medway	£2,321,007.19
Melton	£262,232.76
Mendip	£778,726.42
Merton	£1,623,277.97
Mid Devon	£494,048.61
Mid Suffolk	£476,351.50
Mid Sussex	£624,162.49
Middlesbrough	£1,914,613.49
Milton Keynes	£2,170,751.61
Mole Valley	£422,294.94
New Forest	£1,007,286.36
Newark and Sherwood	£755,927.42
Newcastle under Lyme	£901,963.85
Newcastle upon Tyne	£2,968,354.70
Newham	£4,106,485.02
North Devon	£797,132.46
North Dorset	£384,224.58
North East Derbyshire	£639,136.22
North East Lincolnshire	£1,849,757.08
North Hertfordshire	£910,987.34
North Kesteven	£586,347.97
North Lincolnshire	£1,484,746.54
North Norfolk	£786,652.71
North Somerset	£1,774,558.28
North Tyneside	£1,883,644.51
North Warwickshire	£421,933.09
North West Leicestershire	£603,862.98
Northampton	£1,854,518.92
Northumberland	£2,577,285.03
Norwich	£1,539,947.62
Nottingham	£3,562,667.09
Nuneaton and Bedworth	£1,026,656.67
Oadby and Wigston	£289,440.80
Oldham	£2,123,887.25
Oxford	£1,051,935.88
Pendle	£990,255.52
Peterborough	£1,874,398.54
Plymouth	£2,459,655.14
Poole	£1,033,963.64
Portsmouth	£2,277,522.21
Preston	£1,216,325.82
Purbeck	£296,209.77
Reading	£1,397,519.37
Redbridge	£2,000,022.51
Redcar and Cleveland	£1,538,180.18
Redditch	£691,373.76
Reigate and Banstead	£804,962.55
Ribble Valley	£247,765.94
Richmond upon Thames	£1,239,890.09
Richmondshire	£256,801.15
Rochdale	£2,125,482.98
Rochford	£447,841.73
Rossendale	£617,253.13
Rother	£703,899.60
Rotherham	£2,390,711.81
Rugby	£703,312.84
Runnymede	£507,236.55
Rushcliffe	£484,045.45
Rushmoor	£680,300.34
Rutland	£177,805.74
Ryedale	£315,394.82
Salford	£2,923,858.31
Sandwell	£3,724,492.73
Scarborough	£1,217,175.49
Sedgemoor	£870,814.59
Sefton	£2,632,464.16
Selby	£459,047.40
Sevenoaks	£640,996.24
Sheffield	£4,642,992.72
Shepway	£982,544.92
Shropshire	£2,072,151.93
Slough	£1,364,404.38
Solihull	£1,428,592.37
South Bucks	£312,522.07
South Cambridgeshire	£605,985.64
South Derbyshire	£492,357.11
South Gloucestershire	£1,669,473.53
South Hams	£563,550.62
South Holland	£623,969.52
South Kesteven	£857,258.25
South Lakeland	£515,412.46
South Norfolk	£729,822.00
South Northamptonshire	£336,162.62
South Oxfordshire	£585,031.18
South Ribble	£666,031.17
South Somerset	£1,156,332.54
South Staffordshire	£603,459.18
South Tyneside	£1,682,200.49
Southampton	£2,281,965.47
Southend on Sea	£1,747,499.42
Southwark	£4,290,084.61
Spelthorne	£588,909.97
St Albans	£647,906.94
St Edmundsbury	£689,382.40
St Helens	£1,860,264.73
Stafford	£658,745.65
Staffordshire Moorlands	£520,914.44
Stevenage	£723,808.18
Stockport	£2,786,378.15
Stockton on Tees	£1,790,560.65
Stoke on Trent	£2,671,893.83
Stratford on Avon	£704,088.06
Stroud	£681,933.15
Suffolk Coastal	£720,288.96
Sunderland	£3,431,195.19
Surrey Heath	£406,521.07
Sutton	£1,566,719.21
Swale	£1,140,234.31
Swindon	£1,602,627.72
Tameside	£2,320,585.53
Tamworth	£547,168.79
Tandridge	£409,189.18
Taunton Deane	£801,383.33
Teignbridge	£928,862.64
Telford and Wrekin	£1,634,841.77
Tendring	£1,529,287.49
Test Valley	£660,515.79
Tewkesbury	£500,321.80
Thanet	£1,753,460.11
Three Rivers	£516,400.91
Thurrock	£1,366,427.79
Tonbridge and Malling	£738,167.86
Torbay	£1,714,961.48
Torridge	£510,076.60
Tower Hamlets	£4,711,907.05
Trafford	£1,666,564.76
Tunbridge Wells	£680,863.26
Uttlesford	£343,822.88
Vale of White Horse	£637,692.12
Wakefield	£3,357,564.32
Walsall	£3,282,546.89
Waltham Forest	£2,827,805.07
Wandsworth	£3,207,615.62
Warrington	£1,388,801.37
Warwick	£814,405.49
Watford	£724,442.24
Waveney	£1,096,585.59
Waverley	£616,879.38
Wealden	£748,329.80
Wellingborough	£662,368.74
Welwyn Hatfield	£781,505.49
West Berkshire	£943,103.94
West Devon	£346,423.97
West Dorset	£629,299.65
West Lancashire	£812,383.68
West Lindsey	£665,622.09
West Oxfordshire	£560,657.96
West Somerset	£332,122.02
Westminster	£2,855,482.49
Weymouth and Portland	£634,507.00
Wigan	£2,816,366.83
Wiltshire	£2,788,201.96
Winchester	£546,160.18
Windsor and Maidenhead	£776,569.21
Wirral	£3,302,311.01
Woking	£555,457.56
Wokingham	£557,311.00
Wolverhampton	£3,051,234.75
Worcester	£783,975.42
Worthing	£842,190.12
Wychavon	£678,467.30
Wycombe	£1,015,958.50
Wyre	£933,378.41
Wyre Forest	£880,864.89
York	£1,234,325.63
Aberdeen	£1,524,694.94
Aberdeenshire	£1,344,203.92
Angus	£884,650.31
Argyll and Bute	£764,872.62
Clackmannanshire	£483,002.78
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	£270,206.29
Dumfries and Galloway	£1,460,504.54
Dundee	£1,867,283.78
East Ayrshire	£1,293,846.82
East Dunbartonshire	£571,698.16
East Lothian	£716,575.32
East Renfrewshire	£431,704.59
Edinburgh	£4,453,072.47
Falkirk	£1,342,814.58
Fife	£3,193,296.88
Glasgow	£9,585,687.05
Highland	£1,778,446.70
Inverclyde	£1,055,459.99
Midlothian	£667,807.16
Moray	£591,720.03
North Ayrshire	£1,592,816.54
North Lanarkshire	£3,445,963.35
Orkney	£136,137.92
Perth and Kinross	£1,034,408.96
Renfrewshire	£1,877,401.44
Scottish Borders	£972,606.66
Shetland	£133,256.58
South Ayrshire	£1,062,888.90
South Lanarkshire	£2,911,998.84
Stirling	£561,598.09
West Dunbartonshire	£1,253,950.05
West Lothian	£1,510,231.78
Blaenau Gwent	£772,963.84
Bridgend	£1,284,743.62
Caerphilly	£1,568,650.88
Cardiff	£3,418,957.64
Carmarthenshire	£1,477,106.13
Ceredigion	£520,368.11
Conwy	£992,935.46
Denbighshire	£829,470.94
Flintshire	£1,050,100.68
Gwynedd	£947,502.90
Isle of Anglesey	£554,122.43
Merthyr Tydfil	£621,210.49
Monmouthshire	£565,678.82
Neath Port Talbot	£1,353,782.74
Newport	£1,334,769.13
Pembrokeshire	£931,116.66
Powys	£878,164.99
Rhondda Cynon Taf	£2,267,359.49
Swansea	£2,146,289.83
Torfaen	£955,703.72
Vale of Glamorgan	£931,125.86
Wrexham	£967,337.87”

Article 4(4)

SCHEDULE 2 Part to be substituted for Part 3 of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order

“PART 3 WEEKLY RENT LIMITS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 2: AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND

TABLE

RELEVANT YEAR 2012-13

Authority	Weekly rent limit
Adur	£84.29
Arun	£84.72
Ashfield	£62.05
Ashford	£82.46
Babergh	£80.99
Barking & Dagenham	£87.37
Barnet	£97.35
Barnsley	£67.27
Barrow in Furness	£69.37
Basildon	£78.78
Bassetlaw	£66.19
Birmingham	£75.38
Blackpool	£64.42
Bolsover	£72.65
Bournemouth	£75.44
Brent	£104.73
Brentwood	£86.68
Brighton and Hove	£77.16
Bristol	£73.75
Broxtowe	£67.72
Bury	£70.32
Cambridge	£92.10
Camden	£109.78
Cannock Chase	£68.24
Canterbury	£81.36
Castle Point	£82.58
Central Bedfordshire	£91.71
Charnwood	£67.50
Cheltenham	£74.61
Cheshire West and Chester	£73.50
Chesterfield	£71.66
City of London	£99.43
Colchester	£79.94
Corby	£70.95
Cornwall	£65.58
Crawley	£92.70
Croydon	£98.50
Dacorum	£96.92
Darlington	£64.78
Dartford	£82.15
Derby	£71.51
Doncaster	£66.07
Dover	£78.54
Dudley	£75.31
Durham	£63.05
Ealing	£95.70
East Devon	£73.71
East Riding of Yorkshire	£71.03
Eastbourne	£71.33
Enfield	£92.46
Epping Forest	£90.15
Exeter	£68.58
Fareham	£82.48
Gateshead	£68.91
Gloucester	£72.31
Gosport	£77.53
Gravesham	£82.18
Great Yarmouth	£67.95
Greenwich	£93.09
Guildford	£100.88
Hackney	£92.83
Hammersmith and Fulham	£105.10
Haringey	£97.52
Harlow	£84.51
Harrogate	£74.62
Harrow	£102.91
Havering	£87.40
High Peak	£67.33
Hillingdon	£101.41
Hinckley and Bosworth	£71.16
Hounslow	£95.04
Ipswich	£74.48
Islington	£105.12
Kensington and Chelsea	£116.88
Kettering	£73.90
Kingston upon Hull	£67.98
Kingston upon Thames	£103.66
Kirklees	£64.44
Lambeth	£98.57
Lancaster	£70.30
Leeds	£67.08
Leicester	£66.44
Lewes	£81.95
Lewisham	£87.17
Lincoln	£62.22
Luton	£78.85
Manchester	£68.46
Mansfield	£66.68
Medway	£75.12
Melton	£69.56
Mid Devon	£72.10
Mid Suffolk	£75.34
Milton Keynes	£77.31
New Forest	£90.49
Newark and Sherwood	£71.02
Newcastle upon Tyne	£68.31
Newham	£87.74
North East Derbyshire	£72.46
North Kesteven	£70.24
North Tyneside	£68.62
North Warwickshire	£79.25
North West Leicestershire	£71.60
Northampton	£75.42
Northumberland	£61.61
Norwich	£72.21
Nottingham	£68.48
Nuneaton and Bedworth	£71.07
Oadby and Wigston	£71.65
Oldham	£63.26
Oxford	£96.52
Poole	£78.16
Portsmouth	£77.37
Reading	£96.29
Redbridge	£96.55
Redditch	£71.32
Richmondshire	£71.23
Rochdale	£66.54
Rotherham	£67.92
Rugby	£78.04
Runnymede	£100.06
Salford	£69.40
Sandwell	£75.21
Sedgemoor	£72.07
Selby	£71.74
Sheffield	£65.15
Shepway	£76.96
Shropshire	£74.61
Slough	£96.19
Solihull	£75.12
South Cambridgeshire	£95.18
South Derbyshire	£72.62
South Holland	£68.05
South Kesteven	£71.10
South Lakeland	£80.20
South Tyneside	£67.45
Southampton	£77.08
Southend on Sea	£79.04
Southwark	£97.51
St Albans	£102.55
Stevenage	£89.65
Stockport	£67.85
Stoke on Trent	£65.13
Stroud	£75.89
Sutton	£96.48
Swindon	£75.05
Tamworth	£73.65
Tandridge	£88.97
Taunton Deane	£74.80
Tendring	£76.34
Thanet	£75.17
Thurrock	£78.32
Tower Hamlets	£99.43
Uttlesford	£90.60
Waltham Forest	£92.02
Wandsworth	£113.26
Warwick	£84.87
Waveney	£72.00
Waverley	£101.41
Wealden	£77.51
Welwyn Hatfield	£96.54
West Lancashire	£69.46
Westminster	£114.13
Wigan	£70.33
Wiltshire	£82.12
Winchester	£91.91
Woking	£95.79
Wokingham	£101.42
Wolverhampton	£72.27
York	£72.66”

Article 4(5)

SCHEDULE 3 Part to be substituted for Part 5 of Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order

“PART 5 AMOUNTS FOR PURPOSES OF PART 4, PARAGRAPH 4: AUTHORITIES IN WALES

TABLE

RELEVANT YEAR 2012-13

Authority	(1) Specified Amount “O” £	(2) Guideline rent increase £
Caerphilly	£66.46	£2.64
Cardiff	£75.35	£3.63
Carmarthenshire	£65.22	£3.39
Denbighshire	£62.77	£3.56
Flintshire	£65.47	£3.09
Isle of Anglesey	£61.67	£3.03
Pembrokeshire	£65.52	£3.70
Powys	£67.26	£3.33
Swansea	£64.79	£2.92
Vale of Glamorgan	£72.24	£3.68
Wrexham	£64.37	£3.52 ”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”), which provides for the calculation and payment of housing benefit and council tax benefit subsidy to local authorities in England, Wales and Scotland which administer those benefits. Section 140F(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 authorises the making or varying of an Order before, during or after the year to which it relates.

Article 2, which has effect from 1st April 2011, substitutes a new table in Schedule 1 to the 1998 Order. This substitutes new figures to be used in the calculation of administration subsidy for the year beginning on 1st April 2011.

Article 3, which has effect from 1st April 2012, amends article 4(2)(a) of the 1998 Order to change the date on which a subsidy claim must be send to the Secretary of State. Instead of 31st May of the relevant year, it must now be sent by 30th April.

Article 4, which also has effect from 1st April 2012, amends Schedule 4A to the 1998 Order, which determines whether or not an authority is liable to a deduction from rent rebate subsidy payable for 2012-13.

With respect to authorities in England, paragraph (2) amends the calculation so that the rent for a dwelling in the authority’s Housing Revenue Account which is part of the Affordable Rent programme is not included (and so is not subject to the subsidy limitation on weekly rents). The Affordable Rent programme allows an authority to charge a rent of up to 80% of the rent in the local market in respect of dwellings where it has entered into an arrangement with the Secretary of State, the Homes and Communities Agency or the Greater London Authority. Paragraph (3) substitutes a new table in Part 3 of Schedule 4A (weekly rent limits).

With respect to authorities in Wales, paragraph (4) substitutes a new table in Part 5 of Schedule 4A which sets out the specified amount “O” and the guideline rent increase used when calculating deductions from subsidy under paragraph 4 in Part 4 of that Schedule.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private sector or civil society organisations.

(1)

1992 c.5. Sections 140B, 140C and 140F were inserted by the Housing Act 1996 (c.52), Schedule 12, paragraph 4. Section 140B was amended by the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c.47) (“the Fraud Act”), section 10 and Schedule 1, paragraph 7, the Local Government Act 2003 (c.26), Schedule 7, paragraph 36 and the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c.5), Schedule 5, paragraph 9. Section 189(1) and (4) were amended by the Social Security Act 1998 (c.14), Schedule 7, paragraph 109. Section 189(1) was amended by the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c.2) (“the Transfer of Functions Act”), Schedule 3, paragraph 57(2) and the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c.21), Schedule 6. Section 189(7) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c.14), Schedule 9, paragraph 24 and the Fraud Act, Schedule 1, paragraph 10.

(2)

Section 189(8) was amended by the Housing Act 1996, Schedule 13, paragraph 3(5), the Pensions Act 2007 (c.22), Schedule 1, paragraph 29, the Transfer of Functions Act, Schedule 3, paragraph 57(1) and (3) and the Tax Credits Act 2002, Schedule 4, paragraph 3.

(3)

Section 176(1) was amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, Schedule 9, paragraph 23, the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c.19), section 69(6) and the Housing Act 1996, Schedule 13, paragraph 3(4).

(4)

S.I. 1998/562.

(5)

Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2011/2957.

(6)

Article 4(2)(c) was amended by S.I. 2007/26.

(7)

Schedule 4A was inserted by S.I. 2004/646. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2005/535, 2006/559, 2007/26, 2007/731, 2008/695, 2009/2564, 2010/2481 and 2011/2957.

(8)

2008 c.17. Section 194 was amended by S.I. 2010/844 and by section 179 of, and Schedule 17 to, the Localism Act 2011 (2011 c.20).