Interpretation of Part IV
11. In regulation 57 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (interpretation of Part IV) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(3) In this regulation any reference to a person acting in place of a person’s parents includes a reference to—
(a)where the person is being looked after by a Health and Social Services Board, HSS trust or voluntary organisation which places him with a family, a relative of his, or some other suitable person, the person with whom the person is placed, whether or not any payment is made to him in connection with the placement, or
(b)in any other case, any person with parental responsibility for the child, and for this purpose “parental responsibility” has the meaning it has in the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1) by virtue of Article 6 of that Order.”.