The Rate Relief (Qualifying Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Modification of Part V and Schedule 4

17.—(1) Part V of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (applicable amounts) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications as if in regulation 20—

(a)after “Schedule A1” there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulations 11 and 23”;

(b)after Schedule 4” and “that Schedule”, wherever they occur, there were inserted “to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”.

(2) Schedule 4 to the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations (applicable amounts) shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as it applies for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

(a)as if after “this Part”, wherever it occurs, there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”;

(b)as if in Part I in paragraphs 1 and 2 after “regulation 20” there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”;

(c)as if in Part I in paragraph 1(1) in Column (2) (amount) for each amount (“Column 2 amount”) there were substituted an amount equivalent to the total of each Column 2 amount increased—

(i)for a person to whom sub-paragraph (1) applies, by 10%;

(ii)for a person to whom sub-paragraph (2), (3) or (4) applies, by 15%,

and in each case where the resultant figure is not a whole penny it shall be rounded to the nearest penny and 0.5 of a penny shall be rounded up;

(d)as if—

(i)in Part II in paragraph 3(1) after “and (d)”;

(ii)in Part III in paragraph 4 after “regulation 20(1)(e)”,

there were inserted “of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations as applied with modifications for the purposes of these Regulations by regulation 17”.