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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 2nd July 2001.
(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 an Act of the Assembly.
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In Schedule 1A to the principal Regulations (decisions of rent payable)—
(a) in paragraph 4(2)(b)(iii) (local reference rents) for “kitchen or toilet” in both places where those words occur, there shall be substituted “kitchen, toilet, bathroom and room suitable for living in”;
(b) in paragraph 4A (single room rents) for sub-paragraph (2)(b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(b) that, under the uncontrolled tenancy, the tenant—
(i) has the exclusive use of one bedroom;
(ii) does not have the use of any other bedroom;
(iii) shares the use of a room suitable for living in;
(iv) shares the use of a toilet and bathroom, and
(v) shares the use of a kitchen and does not have the exclusive use of facilities for cooking food, and”.
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In Schedule 1B to the principal Regulations (excluded tenancies)—
(a) in paragraph 2(2)(a) and (b) at the beginning there shall be inserted “subject to head (c)”;
(b) after paragraph 2(2)(b) there shall be added the following head—“or
(c) in a case where sub-paragraph (1) applies and the determination was made before 2nd July 2001 and it was, or was made in conjunction with, a determination of a single room rent pursuant to paragraph 4A of Schedule 1A.”;
(c) in paragraph 2(3)(d) at the end there shall be inserted “on or after 2nd July 2001.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 8th June 2001.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
