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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and come into operation on 1st September 2013.
(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) The Housing Benefit (Executive Determinations) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) omit the definition of “applicable consumer prices index”.
(3) In regulation 3 (broad rental market area determinations and local housing allowance determinations)—
(a) in paragraph (2), for “In 2012 and in each subsequent year, no more than 20 working days after the applicable consumer prices index is published,” substitute “In 2014 and in each subsequent year, on the date specified in paragraph (2A),”; and
(b) after paragraph (2) insert—“
(2A) The date specified for the purposes of paragraph (2) is—
(a) 15th January where that is a Wednesday; or
(b) where 15th January is not a Wednesday, the first Wednesday following 15th January.”.
(4) In paragraph 2 of the Schedule (local housing allowance for category of dwelling in paragraph 1)—
(a) for sub-paragraph (11) substitute—“
(11) The amount to be determined by the rent officer for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1A) is the local housing allowance last determined for that category of dwelling increased by one per cent.”; and
(b) omit sub-paragraph (13).
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 6th August 2013
(L.S.)Anne McCleery
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
