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26.—(1) Any payment made to the claimant in respect of a person who is a member of his family—N.I.

(a)in accordance with regulations made under Article 59A of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(1) (permitted allowances);

(b)which is a payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children Order, in pursuance of Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to child’s maintenance);

(c)pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002(2) or in accordance with a scheme approved by the Scottish Ministers under section 51 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978(3) (schemes for payments of allowances to adopters);

(d)which is a payment made by a local authority in pursuance of section 15(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, the Children Act 1989(4) (local authority contribution to a child’s maintenance where the child is living with a person as a result of a residence order) or, as the case may be, section 50 of the Children Act 1975(5) (payments towards maintenance of children);

(e)in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 14F of the Children Act 1989(6) (special guardianship support services),

to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (3).

(2) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1)(c) applies, made pursuant to regulations under section 2(6)(b), 3 or 4 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.

(3) In the case of a child or young person, so much of the weekly amount of the payment as exceeds the amount included under Schedule 4 in the calculation of the claimant’s applicable amount for that child or young person by way of the personal allowance and disabled child premium, if any.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 6 para. 26 in operation at 20.11.2006, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22); Article 59A was inserted by paragraph 164 of Schedule 9 to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2))

(6)

Section 14F was inserted by section 115 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38)

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