The Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Amendment Regulations 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/2454
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations which may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Amendment Regulations 1998 shall come into force on 30th October 1998.

Section 2 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 1997

Regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit (Recovery of Overpayments) Regulations 1997 (restriction on recovery of rent and consequent notifications) shall be amended in the following manner–

(a) in paragraph (2) for the word “recovered” there shall be substituted the word “recoverable”;

(b) in paragraph (3)–

(i) after the words “paragraph (2) applies” the first time they appear, there shall be inserted the words “or will apply when recovery is made,”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “was one” there shall be substituted the words “is or will be one”.