
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 6th September 1999.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.
(3) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.
2 
Before regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (definition of non-dependant) there shall be inserted the following regulation—“
2B 
Section 1(1A) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (requirement to state national insurance number) shall not apply to housing benefit in a case where the person making the claim for that benefit, or in respect of whom that benefit is claimed, is liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling which is a hostel.”.
3 
The definition of “hostel” in paragraph (5) of regulation 12A of the principal Regulations (pre-tenancy determinations) shall apply generally to those Regulations and in consequence shall be inserted in the appropriate place in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) and shall be omitted from paragraph (5) of regulation 12A of the principal Regulations.
4 
In Schedule 1A of the principal Regulations (determinations of rent payable) in paragraph 14 (interpretation) in the definition of “hostel” for “12A” there shall be substituted “2(1)”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
P. A. Conliffe
Assistant Secretary
3rd September 1999.