SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 11th April 1994. 2 In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires— “ the Act ” means the Social Security Administration Act 1992 ; “the 1987 Regulations ” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 ; “the 1989 Regulations ” means the Community Charge Benefits (General) Regulations 1989 ; “the 1992 Regulations ” means the Council Tax Benefit (General) Regulations 1992 ; “authority”— with respect to claims for council tax benefit subsidy, means a billing authority or, as the case may be, a levying authority to which section 140(2) of the Act refers; with respect to claims for housing benefit subsidy, means a housing or local authority, as the case may be; “community charge benefits” and “excess community charge benefits” shall have the same meanings as in the 1989 Regulations; “excess awards” means overpayments of housing benefit, excess community charge benefits and excess council tax benefit, as the case may be; “ Subsidy Order ” means an Order in respect of the relevant year made under section 135(2) (subsidy order with respect to housing benefit) or section 140(2) (subsidy order with respect to council tax benefit) of the Act; “the relevant year” means the year in respect of which a claim for housing benefit subsidy or council tax benefit subsidy is made; “rent rebate” and “rent allowance” shall be construed in accordance with section 134 of the Act but shall exclude, in the case of a local authority in England and Wales, any Housing Revenue Account rebates granted by them, and other expressions used in these Regulations and in the 1987 Regulations, the 1992Regulations or the Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1994 , as the case may be, shall have the same meanings in these Regulations as they have in those Regulations or in that Order. Particulars to be supplied by an authority to the Secretary of State in relation to a claim for housing benefit subsidy or council tax benefit subsidy 2 For the purposes of sections 137(2) and 140(7) of the Act (power for the Secretary of State to withhold payments of housing benefit subsidy or council tax benefit subsidy) the prescribed particulars which are to be supplied to the Secretary of State by an authority in connection with its claim for housing benefit subsidy or council tax benefit subsidy for the relevant year are those specified in the Schedule to these Regulations. Conditions to be complied with on making a claim for housing benefit subsidy or council tax benefit subsidy 3 A claim for housing benefit subsidy or for council tax benefit subsidy shall be certified by the authority’s auditor; and the authority making the claim shall in addition provide such information and produce such records as are required to satisfy the Secretary of State that the claim is properly calculated and shall keep all records with a bearing on its claim in such a way as to enable them to show and the auditor to check that entitlement to subsidy has been correctly calculated. Time within which claims for housing benefit subsidy and council tax benefit subsidy are to be made and prescribed particulars provided to the Secretary of State 4 1 An authority making a claim for housing benefit subsidy or council tax benefit subsidy shall submit it to the Secretary of State by the 30th September in the year immediately following the relevant year. 2 Any particulars relating to a claim for subsidy to which regulation 2 of and theSchedule to these Regulations refer shall be supplied to the Secretary of State on the date the claim is made together with any certificates, records or other information required by the Secretary of State under regulation 3 above (conditions to be complied with on making a claim for subsidy). Revocation and savings 5 The Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Regulations 1991 , the Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Amendment Regulations 1992 and the Housing Benefit and Community Charge Benefit (Subsidy) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1993 are hereby revoked, except that they shall continue to apply to any claims for subsidy, particulars to be supplied therewith and conditions and questions relating to the payment of subsidy under the Act for any relevant year before 1st April 1993, as if these Regulations had not been made. Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. Alistair Burt Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 15th March 1994