
2025 No. 149
Social Security
The Housing Benefit (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
Made 18th September 2025
Coming into operation 21st October 2025
The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(d), 133(2)(i) and 171(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, and now vested in it .
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 and shall come into operation on 21st October 2025.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations
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In regulation 10(5) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (persons from abroad) for sub-paragraph (l) substitute—“
(l) in receipt of income support, an income-related employment and support allowance or universal credit;”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 18th September 2025
(L.S.)David Tarr
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
