The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987. They make and further amend provisions relating to maximum eligible rent in cases where housing benefit is payable, including conferring a discretion on the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (“the Executive”) to pay a lesser sum in appropriate cases (regulations 3, 5 and 7). They also add a discretion to pay more benefit than would otherwise be payable by reason of these Regulations (regulation 10).