PART 4Other miscellaneous amendments

Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006

26.—(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 21 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household), in paragraph (3)(a) for “section 23(2)(a)” substitute “section 22C(2)”.

(3) In regulation 38 (earnings of self-employed earners), in paragraph (2)(b)(i), for “section 23(2)(a) of the Children Act 1989 (provision of accommodation and maintenance for a child whom they are looking after)” substitute “section 22C(2) of the Children Act 1989 (ways in which looked after children are to be accommodated and maintained)”.

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S.I. 2006/214; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2013/1465 and 2016/732.