Section 120: Payment of housing benefit to third parties.

Housing Act 1996 · 1996 c. 52View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: Universal Credit, Housing benefit and related matters

In section 5 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (regulations about claims for and payments of benefit), after subsection (5) insert—

The above amendment shall be deemed always to have had effect; and provision corresponding to that made by the amendment shall be deemed to have had effect at all material times in relation to corresponding earlier enactments.

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