The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Information-Sharing and Disability Assistance) (Consequential Provision and Modifications) Order 2021 No. 1188

PART 4 Social Security

Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

11.—(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 73F(1)(g)(2) (exception to the benefit cap: receipt of specified benefit)—

(a) in the opening words, after “(e),”, insert “(eza),”,

(b) after head (iv), insert—

“(v) that person is not receiving it under regulation 17 (effect of admission to a care home on ongoing entitlement to care component) of the DACYP Regulations;”.

(1)

S.R. 2006 No. 405.

(2)

Regulation 73F was inserted by S.R. 2016 No. 55 and relevantly amended by S.R. 2016 No. 228 and S.I. 2021/786.