The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Amendment Regulations 1993

Made: 4th March 1993

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 1993

Coming into force: 31st March 1993

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 137(2), 140(7), 189(1), (3), (4) and (5) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned[^f00002], and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it[^f00003], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Amendment Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 31st March 1993.

• (2) In these Regulations “the Subsidy Regulations” means the Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Regulations 1991[^f00004].

Amendment of the Schedule to the Subsidy Regulations

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In the Schedule to the Subsidy Regulations (prescribed particulars relating to claims for Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit subsidy for the relevant year) after paragraph 23 there shall be added the following paragraphs—

(24) (1) The total number of benefit weeks and of overrun weeks, if any, in the relevant year, in the case of— (a) rent rebates; (b) rent allowances; and (c) community charge benefits, respectively. (2) In sub-paragraph (1) above “benefit week” shall have the same meaning as in the 1987 Regulations and “overrun week” shall have the same meaning as in Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1993[^f00005]. (25) (1) The average rent payable in respect of Category 1 dwellings and Category 2 dwellings respectively on the second relevant date and the third relevant date. (2) The average rent payable by Category A tenants and Category B tenants respectively on the first relevant date and second relevant date. (3) In sub-paragraph (1) and (2) above the expressions “Category A tenant”, “Category B tenant”, “Category 1 dwelling”, “Category 2 dwelling”, “first relevant date”, “second relevant date” and “third relevant date” shall have the same meanings as in article 6(5) of the Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1993.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Alistair Burt — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, — Department of Social Security — 4th March 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide for the particulars, which are required to be provided by an authority to the Secretary of State on the making of claims for housing benefit subsidy and community charge benefit subsidy, to include also details of the total number of benefit period overrun weeks during the relevant year and information as to average rents of local authority properties rented out on a specified day in March 1993 and of those properties on 11th November 1991 and for local authority tenants on 11th November 1991 and a date chosen by the authority in March 1989.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1992 c. 5; section 191 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “prescribe”.

[^f00002]: See the Social Security Administration Act 1992, section 176(1).

[^f00003]: See the Social Security Administration Act 1992, section 173(1)(b) and (7); section 173(7) defines “regulations”.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1991/441; Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 1992/701.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1993/484.