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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1998.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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(1) The Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 10A(3)(a) (determinations) for “under paragraph 3 or 4” there shall be substituted “under paragraph 3, 4 or 4A”.
(3) In Schedule 1A (determinations of rent payable) in paragraph 4A(2) (single room rents) for head (b)(iv) there shall be substituted—“
(iv) shares the use of a kitchen and does not have the exclusive use of facilities for cooking food, and”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
John O'Neill
Assistant Secretary
19th March 1998.