
1 
These Regulations which may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Amendment Regulations 1998 shall come into force on 30th October 1998.
2 
Regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 1997 (restriction on recovery of rent and consequent notifications) shall be amended in the following manner–
(a) in paragraph (2) for the word “recovered” there shall be substituted the word “recoverable”;
(b) in paragraph (3)–
(i) after the words “paragraph (2) applies” the first time they appear, there shall be inserted the words “or will apply when recovery is made,”; and
(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “was one” there shall be substituted the words “is or will be one”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Angela Eagle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
5th October 1998