The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000

• Citation: S.I. 2000/638
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987

In regulation 5 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–

(4A) Where a person is required to reside in a dwelling which is a bail hostel or probation hostel approved by the Secretary of State under section 27 of the Probation Service Act 1993 , he shall not be treated as occupying that dwelling as his home.