The Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/550
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Amendment Order 1999 and shall come into force on 1st April 1999.

(2) In this Order, “the principal Order ” means the Income-related Benefits (Subsidy to Authorities) Order 1998 .

(3) Expressions used in this Order and in the principal Order have the same meanings in this Order as they have in the principal Order.

Section 2 Scottish Homes

For the year commencing on 1st April 1998, for the sum of “£1,683,746” specified as the maximum sum payable to Scottish Homes in article 13(2)(a) of the principal Order, there shall be substituted the sum of “£1,278,000”.

Section 3 Additions to subsidy

For the year commencing 1st April 1998, and for any relevant year thereafter, the additions to subsidy for fraudulent overpayments specified in article 18(1)(b)(ii) of the principal Order shall be reduced from 95 per cent to 80 per cent of the overpayment.

Section 4 Sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy

For the year commencing 1st April 1998, for Schedule 1 to the principal Order (sums to be used in the calculation of subsidy) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to this Order.

Section 5 Period overruns

In Part I of Schedule 3 to the principal Order (calculation of deductions from subsidy in respect of period overruns), in paragraph 1, in the definition of “benefit period”, after the words “less than 60 benefit weeks” there shall be inserted the words “it means a period of 60 benefit weeks”.

Section 6 Reduced subsidy payable on Rent Allowances

For the year commencing 1st April 1998 and for any relevant year thereafter, for Part V of Schedule 4 to the principal Order there shall be substituted the Part set out in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Section 18

The Table referred to in paragraph 1 is–