The Healthy Start Scheme and Day Care Food Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019

Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

4.—(1) Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (claim for benefit)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) After paragraph (3A) insert—

“(3B) A mother who—

(a) immediately before the birth of her child was—

(i) entitled to state pension credit;

(ii) a member of a couple where the other member of that couple was entitled to state pension credit; or

(iii) the responsibility (within the meaning of paragraphs 3 to 7 of Schedule 2A to the State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003) of a person who was entitled to state pension credit which included the additional amount for a child or qualifying young person; and

(b) has parental responsibility for the child whose date of birth has not been notified to the Department and in respect of whom the period of 4 months from the estimated date of delivery has not passed,

may become entitled to benefit from the date of birth of the child, provided that she has not submitted a claim as a mother described in regulation 4(3)(db).”

(1)

Regulation 5 was amended by S.R. 2017 No. 200