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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2000.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
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In regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(4A) Where a person is required by a court to reside in a dwelling which is a hostel, he shall not be treated as occupying that dwelling as his home.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 9th March 2000.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
