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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force as follows—
(a) regulation 1, and regulation 2 insofar only as it relates to any case where rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple of a week, on 1st April 1992;
(b) regulation 2, except in a case to which sub-paragraph (a) above relates, on 6th April 1992.
(2) In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations” shall mean the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987.
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In regulation 8 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (eligible housing costs)
(a) in paragraph (1) for the words “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (2) and (2A)”;
(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(2A) Where any payment for which a person is liable in respect of a dwelling and which is specified in regulation 10(1) (payments of rent for which housing benefit is payable), is increased on account of
(a) outstanding arrears of any payment or charge, or
(b) any other unpaid payment or charge
 to which paragraphs (1) to (3) of that regulation or Schedule 1 (ineligible charges) refer and which is or was formerly owed by him in respect of that or another dwelling, a rent rebate or, as the case may be, a rent allowance shall not be payable in respect of that increase.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Ann Widdecombe
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
7th February 1992