Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2003/48 |
| Year | 2003 |
2003 No. 48
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003
Made 12th January 2003
Laid before Parliament 20th January 2003
Coming into force 10th February 2003
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 1(1), 5(1)(a), (b), and (c), 6(1)(a), (b) and (c), 7A(1)(a) and (2)(a), 189(1), (4), (5) and (7) and 191 of the Social Security Administration Act 19921, section 130(4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19922, section 122(3) and (5) of the Housing Act 19963and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned4and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it5, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 10th February 2003.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 19926;
“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 19877.
Amendments to the Council Tax Benefit Regulations
2. In regulation 2(1) of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations (interpretation) for the definition of “designated office” there shall be substituted the following definition—
““designated office” means the office designated by the relevant authority for the receipt of claims to council tax benefit, either—
(a) by notice upon or with a form approved by it for the purpose of claiming council tax benefit; or
(b) by reference upon or with such a form to some other document available from it and sent by electronic means or otherwise on application and without charge; or
(c) by any combination of the provisions set out in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) above;”.
3.—(1) Regulation 62 of the Council Tax Benefit Regulations (time and manner in which claims are to be made) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (4)(a) after the words “income support” there shall be inserted the words “, incapacity benefit”.
(3) For paragraph (4)(c) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(c)
“(c) sent or delivered to the appropriate social security office, other than one sent on the same form as a claim being made to income support, incapacity benefit or a jobseeker’s allowance and as approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of the benefits being claimed, shall be forwarded to the relevant authority within two working days of the date of the receipt of the claim at the appropriate social security office or as soon as practicable thereafter;”.
(4) After paragraph (5)(a), there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—
“(aa)
“(aa) in a case where the claimant or his partner claimed council tax benefit on the same form as a claim being made to incapacity benefit or a contribution-based jobseeker’s allowance and as approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of the benefits being claimed, the date on which the claim is received at the appropriate social security office;”.
(5) In paragraph (5)(b), for the words “a jobseeker’s allowance” there shall be substituted the words “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”.
Amendments to the Housing Benefit Regulations
4. In regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations (interpretation) for the definition of “designated office” there shall be substituted the following...
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