The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1992

• Citation: S.I. 1992/201
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force as follows—

(a) regulation 1, and regulation 2 insofar only as it relates to any case where rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple of a week, on 1st April 1992;

(b) regulation 2, except in a case to which sub-paragraph (a) above relates, on 6th April 1992.

(2) In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations” shall mean the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 .

Section 2 Amendment to the Housing Benefit Regulations

In regulation 8 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (eligible housing costs)

(a) in paragraph (1) for the words “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraphs (2) and (2A)”;

(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(2A) Where any payment for which a person is liable in respect of a dwelling and which is specified in regulation 10(1) (payments of rent for which housing benefit is payable), is increased on account of

(a) outstanding arrears of any payment or charge, or

(b) any other unpaid payment or charge

to which paragraphs (1) to (3) of that regulation or Schedule 1 (ineligible charges) refer and which is or was formerly owed by him in respect of that or another dwelling, a rent rebate or, as the case may be, a rent allowance shall not be payable in respect of that increase.