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Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Any Person1
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184 duties
Merchant Shipping Act 1995
144 duties
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
104 duties
Communications Act 2003
92 duties
Road Traffic Act 1988
92 duties
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.063
Evidence and information
Regulated
- Provide pension scheme information to housing benefit authorities on requestAny Person
s.075
Payment on death of the person entitled
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Relevant authority must pay housing benefit upon death of the claimantLocal authority
114 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Definition of non-dependant
s.004
Cases in which section 1(1A) of the Administration Act is disapplied
s.005
Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit
s.006
Remunerative work
s.007
Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as occupying a dwelling as his home
s.008
Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling
s.009
Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as not liable to make payments in respect of a dwelling
s.010
Persons from abroad
s.011
Eligible housing costs
s.012
Rates
s.013
Rent
s.013
Eligible rent
s.013
Eligible rent and maximum rent
s.013
Eligible rent and maximum rent (LHA)
s.013
Transitional protection–reduction in LHA
s.014
Maximum rent
s.014
Protection on death and 13 week protection
s.014
Change in reckonable rent
s.014
When a maximum rent (LHA) is to be determined
s.014
Determination of a maximum rent (LHA)
s.014
Publication of local housing allowances
s.014
Amended determinations
s.015
Decisions
s.016
Pre-tenancy decisions
s.017
Persons of prescribed description
s.018
Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another
s.019
Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household
s.020
Applicable amounts
s.021
Calculation of income and capital of members of claimant’s family and of a polygamous marriage
s.022
Circumstances in which income of non-dependant is to be treated as claimant’s
s.023
Calculation of income and capital
s.024
Claimant in receipt of guarantee credit
s.025
Calculation of claimant’s income and capital in savings credit only cases
s.026
Calculation of income and capital where state pension credit is not payable
s.027
Meaning of “income”
s.028
Calculation of income on a weekly basis
s.029
Treatment of child care charges
s.030
Calculation of average weekly income from tax credits
s.031
Calculation of weekly income
s.032
Disregard of changes in tax, contributions etc.
s.033
Earnings of employed earners
s.034
Calculation of net earnings of employed earners
s.035
Calculation of earnings of self-employed earners
s.036
Earnings of self-employed earners
s.037
Calculation of net profit of self-employed earners
s.038
Deduction of tax and contributions of self-employed earners
s.039
Notional income
s.040
Income paid to third parties
s.041
Capital limit
s.042
Calculation of capital
s.043
Calculation of capital in the United Kingdom
s.044
Calculation of capital outside the United Kingdom
s.045
Notional capital
s.046
Diminishing notional capital rule
s.047
Capital jointly held
s.048
Maximum housing benefit
s.049
Housing benefit tapers
s.050
Amount payable during extended payment period when an extended payment is payable pursuant to regulation 70 or 71 of the Housing Benefit Regulations
s.051
Extended payments (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.051
Duration of extended payment period (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.051
Amount of extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits)
s.051
Relationship between extended payment (qualifying contributory benefits) and entitlement to housing benefit under the general conditions of entitlement
s.052
Continuing payments where state pension credit claimed
s.053
Non-dependant deductions
s.054
Minimum housing benefit
s.055
Date on which entitlement is to commence
s.056
Date on which housing benefit is to end where entitlement to severe disablement allowance or incapacity benefit ceases
s.057
Date on which change of circumstances is to take effect
s.058
Change of circumstances where state pension credit payable
s.059
Calculation of weekly amounts
s.060
Rent and rate-free periods
s.061
Who may claim
s.062
Time and manner in which claims are to be made
s.062
Electronic claims for benefit
s.064
Amendment and withdrawal of claim
s.065
Duty to notify changes of circumstances
s.065
Notice of change of circumstances given electronically
s.066
Decisions by a relevant authority
s.067
Notification of decision
s.068
Time and manner of payment
s.069
Circumstances in which a rate rebate may be treated as if it fell to be paid as a rent allowance
s.070
Frequency of payment of a rent allowance
s.071
Payment on account of a rent allowance
s.072
Payment to be made to a person entitled
s.073
Circumstances in which payment is to be made to a landlord or the Department of Finance and Personnel
s.074
Circumstances in which payment may be made to a landlord or the Department of Finance and Personnel
s.076
Offsetting
s.077
Meaning of overpayment
s.078
Recoverable overpayments
s.079
Person from whom recovery may be sought
s.080
Method of recovery
s.081
Diminution of capital
s.082
Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable overpayments
s.082
Sums to be deducted in calculating recoverable overpayments where the claimant has changed dwelling
s.083
Recovery of overpayments from prescribed benefits
s.083
Recovery by deduction from earnings
s.084
Prescribed benefits
s.085
Restrictions on recovery of rent and consequent modifications
s.085
Interpretation
s.085
Collection of information
s.085
Verifying information
s.085
Recording and holding information
s.085
Forwarding of information
s.085
Request for information
s.086
Interpretation
s.087
Requiring information
s.088
Circumstances for requiring information
s.089
Relevant information
s.090
Manner of supply of information
s.091
Criminal offence
Schedules
Schedules
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s.sch001
Ineligible service charges
s.sch001
Amount ineligible for meals
s.sch001
Amount of ineligible charges
s.sch001
Excessive service costs
s.sch001
A service charge for fuel except a charge in respect...
s.sch001
(1) Where a charge is ineligible to be met by...
s.sch001
(1) Where rent is payable other than weekly, any amount...
s.sch001
In this Schedule— “communal area” means any area (other than...
s.sch002
Significantly high rents
s.sch002
One bedroom or room suitable for living in shall be...
s.sch002
One additional bedroom is allowed where on the application for...
s.sch002
Two additional bedrooms are allowed where sub-paragraphs (a) and (b)...
s.sch002
The number of rooms (excluding any allowed under paragraph 10)...
s.sch002
Houseboats
s.sch002
Mobile homes
s.sch002
Rental purchase agreements
s.sch002
In this Schedule— “uncontrolled tenancy” means a tenancy which is...
s.sch002
Size and rent
s.sch002
Exceptionally high rents
s.sch002
Local reference rents
s.sch002
Single room rents
s.sch002
Claim-related rent
s.sch002
Ineligible charges and support charges
s.sch002
Housing associations etc.
s.sch002
(1) The Executive shall decide the indicative rent level for...
s.sch003
An excluded tenancy is any tenancy to which any of...
s.sch003
(1) Subject to the following sub-paragraphs, where the Executive has...
s.sch003
This paragraph applies where the landlord is a registered housing...
s.sch003
This paragraph applies to a tenancy which is a controlled...
s.sch003
(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) this paragraph applies...
s.sch003
In this Schedule expressions have the same meaning as in...
s.sch004
Persons in receipt of concessionary payments
s.sch004
Person in receipt of benefit
s.sch004
(1) The amounts specified in column (2) in respect of...
s.sch004
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), for the purposes of this...
s.sch004
Severe Disability Premium
s.sch004
Enhanced disability premium
s.sch004
Disabled child premium
s.sch004
Carer premium
s.sch005
Where 2 or more of paragraphs 2 to 5 apply...
s.sch005
Where a payment of earnings is made in a currency...
s.sch005
In a case where a claimant is a lone parent,...
s.sch005
(1) In a case of earnings from any employment or...
s.sch005
(1) If the claimant or, if he has a partner,...
s.sch005
(1) £20 is disregarded if the claimant or, if he...
s.sch005
(1) Where— (a) the claimant (or if the claimant is...
s.sch005
Any amount or the balance of any amount which would...
s.sch005
Except where the claimant or his partner qualifies for a...
s.sch005
Any earnings other than earnings referred to in regulation 31(8)(b),...
s.sch005
(1) In a case where the claimant is a person...
s.sch006
In addition to any sum which falls to be disregarded...
s.sch006
Where the claimant occupies a dwelling as his home and...
s.sch006
If the claimant— (a) owns the freehold or leasehold interest...
s.sch006
Where a claimant receives income under an annuity purchased with...
s.sch006
(1) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph...
s.sch006
Any increase in ... of the Naval, Military and Air...
s.sch006
Any payment ordered by a court to be made to...
s.sch006
Periodic payments made to the claimant or the claimant’s partner...
s.sch006
Any income which is payable outside the United Kingdom for...
s.sch006
Any banking charges or commission payable in converting to sterling...
s.sch006
Where the claimant makes a parental contribution in respect of...
s.sch006
£10 of a pension paid by a government to victims...
s.sch006
(1) Where the claimant is the parent of a student...
s.sch006
(1) Where a claimant’s family includes at least one child...
s.sch006
Except in a case which falls under paragraph 9 of...
s.sch006
Except in the case of income from capital specified in...
s.sch006
Any special war widows payment made under——
s.sch006
Where the total value of any capital specified in Part...
s.sch006
Any amount of carer support payment that is in excess...
s.sch006
The whole of any amount included in a pension to...
s.sch006
Any mobility supplement under article 20 of the Naval, Military...
s.sch006
Any supplementary pension under article 23(2) of the Naval, Military...
s.sch006
In the case of a pension awarded at the supplementary...
s.sch006
(1) Any payment which is— (a) made under any of...
s.sch006
£15 of any widowed parent’s allowance to which the claimant...
s.sch006
£15 of any widowed mother’s allowance to which the claimant...
s.sch007
Any premises or land acquired for occupation by the claimant...
s.sch007
The assets of any business owned in whole or in...
s.sch007
The surrender value of any policy of life insurance.
s.sch007
The value of any funeral plan contract; and for this...
s.sch007
Where an ex-gratia payment has been made by the Secretary...
s.sch007
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the amount of any trust...
s.sch007
The amount of any payment, other than a war pension...
s.sch007
(1) Any payment made under or by —
s.sch007
(1) An amount equal to the amount of any payment...
s.sch007
Any amount specified in paragraph 19, 20 , 21 or...
s.sch007
Amounts paid under a policy of insurance in connection with...
s.sch007
Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his...
s.sch007
So much of any amounts paid to the claimant or...
s.sch007
(1) Subject to paragraph 22, any amount paid—
s.sch007
(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), any payment of £5,000 or...
s.sch007
Any payment of a widowed parent’s allowance made pursuant to...
s.sch007
Where a capital asset is held in a currency other...
s.sch007
The value of the right to receive income from an...
s.sch007
The dwelling occupied as the home; but only one dwelling...
s.sch007
Where an ex-gratia payment has been made by the Secretary...
s.sch007
Where a person elects to be entitled to a lump...
s.sch007
Any arrears of supplementary pension which is disregarded under paragraph...
s.sch007
Any payment made under Part 8A of the Act (entitlement...
s.sch007
Any payments made under regulations made under section 8 of...
s.sch007
(1) A payment of bereavement support payment in respect of...
s.sch007
Any payment made under or by a trust, established for...
s.sch007
Any sum paid by means of assistance in accordance with...
s.sch007
Any sum paid by means of winter heating assistance in...
s.sch007
Where a person chooses a lump sum under section 8(2)...
s.sch007
The value of the right to receive any income under...
s.sch007
Any premises which the claimant intends to occupy as his...
s.sch007
The value of the right to receive any rent except...
s.sch007
The value of the right to receive any income under...
s.sch007
Any ex-gratia payment made to a qualifying Equitable Life annuitant...
s.sch007
Where property is held under a trust, other than—
s.sch007
Any premises occupied in whole or in part by—
s.sch007
Any future interest in property of any kind, other than...
s.sch007
Where a claimant has ceased to occupy what was formerly...
s.sch007
Any premises or land where the claimant is taking reasonable...
s.sch007
All personal possessions.
s.sch007
The assets of any business owned in whole or in...
s.sch008
Adjustment of entitlement in respect of an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch008
Interpretation
s.sch008
Calculation and payment of an extended payment (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch008
Movers
s.sch008
Movers and rent allowances
s.sch008
Movers and rent and rate rebates
s.sch008
Movers and extended payments (severe disablement allowance and incapacity benefit)
s.sch008
Maximum housing benefit
s.sch008
Movers and rate rebates
s.sch008
Movers with 2 homes
s.sch009
The statement of matters to be included in any decision...
s.sch009
Where a person is not on state pension credit but...
s.sch009
Where a decision has been made under regulation 73 or...
s.sch009
In this Schedule, “landlord” has the same meaning as in...
s.sch009
Where an authority makes a decision under regulation 22 the...
s.sch009
(...) Where a person is not awarded housing benefit—
s.sch009
(1) Where the appropriate authority makes a decision that there...
s.sch009
(1) This Part applies in a case where a decision...
s.sch009
Every decision notice shall include a statement as to the...
s.sch009
Every decision notice shall include a statement as to the...
s.sch009
Every decision notice following an application for a revision in...
s.sch009
Every decision notice following an application for a revision in...
s.sch009
An authority may include in the decision notice any other...
s.sch009
Parts II, III and VI shall apply only to the...
s.sch009
Where a decision notice is given following a revision of...
s.sch009
(1) Where a person on state pension credit is awarded...
s.sch010
Interpretation
s.sch010
Conditions for the use of electronic communication
s.sch010
Use of intermediaries
s.sch010
Effect of delivering information by means of electronic communication
s.sch010
Proof of identity of sender or recipient of information
s.sch010
Proof of delivery of information
s.sch010
Proof of content of information
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