The Housing Benefit (General) Amendment Regulations 1995
These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1971). These Regulations make and further amend provisions relating to maximum eligible rent in cases where housing benefit is payable, including conferring a discretion on local authorities to pay a lesser sum in appropriate cases (regulations 3, 4 & 5). They also require local authorities to make certain requests for determinations and redeterminations from rent officers and provide for their consequences (regulations 6 & 8) and add a discretion to pay more benefit than would otherwise be payable by reason of these Regulations (regulation 7).