The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made: 10th November 2006

Coming into operation: 19th November 2006

The Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it[^f00004].

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 and shall come into operation on 19th November 2006.

• (2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954[^f00005] shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations

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In Schedule 1 to the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006[^f00006] in column (3) of the entry relating to the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005[^f00007] for “(9)(a)” substitute “(9)(b)”.

Signed

SealedwiththeOfficialSealoftheDepartmentforSocialDevelopmenton10th November2006

John O’Neill — AseniorofficeroftheDepartmentforSocialDevelopment

TheDepartmentofFinanceandPersonnelherebyconsentstotheforegoingRegulations.

SealedwiththeOfficialSealoftheDepartmentofFinanceandPersonnelon10th November2006

Fiona Hamill — AseniorofficeroftheDepartmentofFinanceandPersonnel

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 which make provision in connection with the consolidation of regulations relating to housing benefit.

Regulation 2 corrects an error in Schedule 1 to those Regulations (revocations).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1992 c. 7; section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

[^f00002]: See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

[^f00003]: See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

[^f00004]: See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)

[^f00005]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.)

[^f00006]: S.R. 2006 No. 407

[^f00007]: S.R. 2005 No. 98