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7.—(1) The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In paragraph 14(7)(e) of Schedule 2 (housing costs) for “13 weeks”, in both places where it occurs, there shall be substituted “52 weeks”.
(3) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 (special groups) –
(a)in sub-paragraph (1) the words “13 weeks but not exceeding 52 weeks, or, in exceptional circumstances, is unlikely to substantially exceed” shall be omitted;
(b)in sub-paragraph (2)(a) –
(i)for “determined by taking the amount for the time being specified in regulation 6(1)(b) and reducing it by an amount equal to 38” there shall be substituted “equal to 20”, and
(ii)after “the Contributions and Benefits Act” there shall be added “(“the standard reduction”)”;
(c)in sub-paragraph (2)(b) for “20 per cent. of the weekly rate of the basic pension for the time being specified in section 44(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (“the standard reduction”)” there shall be substituted “the standard reduction”;
(d)sub-paragraph (3) shall be omitted;
(e)in sub-paragraph (4) for “sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the basic pension” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (2), the standard reduction”;
(f)in sub-paragraph (5) the words “or (3)” shall be omitted; and
(g)in sub-paragraph (6) the words “13 weeks and” shall be omitted.
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