PART IV N.I.BENEFITS

Amendments, etc. of the Contributions and Benefits Act N.I.

Power to reduce child benefit for lone parents N.I.

68 .F1 —(1) Regulations may revoke any provision of regulations which prescribes a higher rate of child benefit in the case of a lone parent, notwithstanding anything in section 141(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (which precludes regulations from prescribing a rate lower than the rate it replaces).

(2) In this Article “lone parent” means a parent who—

(a) has no spouse[F2 or civil partner] or is not living with his spouse[F2 or civil partner]; and

(b) is not living with any other person [F3 as if spouses of each other] .

F4 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1 prosp. in pt. functions transf. by 2002 c. 21

F2 2004 c.33

F3 Words in art. 68(2)(b) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 70(a) (with regs. 6-9)

F4 Art. 68(3) omitted (13.1.2020) by virtue of The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 70(b) (with regs. 6-9)