The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003

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The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

SOCIAL SECURITY

Made

7 th September 2003

Laid before Parliament

12 th September 2003

Coming into force

for the purposes of regulation 2

5 th October 2003

for all other purposes

6 th October 2003

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the provisions specified in the Schedule to these Regulations and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with organisations appearing to him to be representative of the authorities concerned (1) and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it(2) , hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 2 , on 5 th October 2003; and

(b) for all other purposes, on 6 th October 2003.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the Council Tax Benefit Regulations” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992(3);

“the Decisions and Appeals Regulations” means the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2001(4);

“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(5); and

“the State Pension Credit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations 2003(6).

Amendment of the State Pension Credit Regulations

2.—(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 3(1) (housing benefit—interpret...

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