The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/2401
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 6th September 1999.

Section 2 Citation and commencement

In these Regulations “the Housing Benefit Regulations ” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 .

Section 3 Insertion of regulation 2B into the Housing Benefit Regulations

Before regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit Regulations there shall be inserted the following regulation—

Cases in which section 1(1A) of the Administration Act is disapplied

(2B) Section 1(1A) of the Administration Act (requirement to state national insurance number) shall not apply to housing benefit in a case where the person making a claim for that benefit, or in respect of whom that benefit is claimed, is liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling which is a hostel.

Section 4 Amendment of regulations 2 and 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations

The definition of “hostel” in paragraph (8) of regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations (requirement to refer to rent officers) shall apply generally to those Regulations and in consequence shall be inserted in the appropriate place in regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations (interpretation) and shall be omitted from paragraph (8) of regulation 12A of the Housing Benefit Regulations.