The Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/566
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) (Amendment) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 31st March 1998.

(2) In this Order “the Permitted Totals Order ” means the Housing Benefit (Permitted Totals) Order 1996 .

Section 2 Permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion

(1) In article 2 of the Permitted Totals Order (permitted total of benefit awarded in exercise of a discretion) the words following “housing benefit” shall be reimbursed as paragraph (a) of article 2 and after paragraph (a) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

(b) for the year commencing on 1st April 1997 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amounts obtained by the calculations set out in articles 3 and 4 below; and

(c) for any year commencing on or after 1st April 1998 in relation to an authority shall be the total of the amount obtained by the calculation in article 3 below and the amount specified in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) The Schedule to this Order shall be added as the Schedule to the Permitted Totals Order.

Section 3 Permitted total of benefit in modified schemes

In article 5 of the Permitted Totals Order for the words “the year commencing” there shall be substituted the words “any year commencing on or after”.