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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation –
(a) in relation to any case where rent is payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 7th April 2003, and
(b) in relation to any other case, on 1st April 2003.
(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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(1) Schedule 1A of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (decisions of rent payable) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In paragraph 4(3) (local reference rents), head (c) and the word “and” which immediately precedes it shall be omitted.
(3) In paragraph 6 (ineligible charges and support charges) –
(a) in sub-paragraph (1) –
(i) in head (a), sub-paragraph (i) and the word “and” which immediately follows it shall be omitted, and
(ii) head (b) and the word “and” which immediately precedes it shall be omitted.
(b) in sub-paragraph (2), head (b) and the word “and” which immediately precedes it shall be omitted.
(4) In paragraph 8(4) (indicative rent levels), head (c) and the word “and” which immediately precedes it shall be omitted.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 21st March 2003.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
