Supplementary Benefit (Housing Benefits) (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1983

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1983/337

1983 No. 337

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Supplementary Benefit (Housing Benefits) (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1983

7thMarch 1983

11thMarch 1983

Regulations 1, 3(4) and 4(1)(a) and, for certain purposes, regulations 2 and 3(1) to (3) and (7)Regulations 1, 3(4) and 4(1)(a) and, for certain purposes, regulations 2 and 3(1) to (3) and (7)1stApril 1983Regulations 2 and 3(1) to (3) and (7) for other purposesRegulations 2 and 3(1) to (3) and (7) for other purposes4thApril 1983Regulations 3(5) and (6) and 4(1)(b) and (2)Regulations 3(5) and (6) and 4(1)(b) and (2)30thMay 1983

The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1) and (1A) and 14(2)(a), (f), (g) and (i) of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976(a) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations.

This instrument satisfies the requirements of paragraph 38 of Schedule 4 to the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982(b) and the Secretary of State has not referred proposals to make any of the regulations contained in it to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council or the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Supplementary Benefit (Housing Benefits) (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Regulations 1983 and shall come into operation as follows:—

(a) regulations 1, 3(4) and 4(1)(a) on 1st April 1983;

(b) regulations 2 and 3(1) to (3) and (7)—

(i) in relation to a person to whom regulation 3(1)(b) of the Housing Benefits Regulations 1982(c) (certain persons eligible for rate rebates) applies, on 1st April 1983, and

(ii) for all other purposes on 4th April 1983;

(c) regulations 3(5) and (6) and 4(1)(b) and (2) on 30th May 1983.

(a) 1976 c. 71; section 14 was amended by section 6(1) of, and paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30).

(b) 1982 c. 24.

(c) S.I. 1982/1124, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations.

(2) In these regulations the "Claims and Payments Regulations" means the Supplementary Benefit (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1981(a).

Amendment of the Supplementary Benefit (Determination of Questions) Regulations 1980

2.—(1) The Supplementary Benefit (Determination of Questions) Regulations 1980(b) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 5B(1) (determination of amount of water charges) for sub-paragraph (c) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph:—

"(c) the water charges—

(i) are collected direct from the claimant or his partner by an authority (being, in relation to England and Wales, a housing authority within the meaning of section 35(1) of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 and, in relation to Scotland, a housing or rating authority within the meaning of that section 35(1)) on behalf of the water authority or water company or, in Scotland, on behalf of a regional or islands council which is a water authority, or

(ii) are included in rent part of which is eligible for a rent allowance from a local authority under the Housing Benefits Regulations 1982, but are not identified as a separate item in that rent or have not been identified by that authority to the benefit officer as being of a specific amount,".

(3) In regulation 7 (date of commencement, change and termination of entitlement to pensions and allowances) in paragraph (2) (meaning of "benefit week")—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words "sub-paragraph (b) does not apply" there are substituted the words "neither sub-paragraph (aa) nor sub-paragraph (b) applies";

(b) after sub-paragraph (a) there is inserted the following sub-paragraph:—

"(aa) where an amount is applicable to him under regulation 19A of the Requirements Regulations (housing benefit supplement), on such day of...

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