The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 No. 2006 (NI. 1)

PART 3 N.I. Working-age benefits

CHAPTER 2 N.I. Employment and support allowance

Conditions of entitlement N.I.

Dual entitlement N.I.

56.  In section 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (employment and support allowance), after subsection (6) insert—

“(6A) In subsection (3)(f), in relation to a contributory allowance, the reference to a couple entitled to a joint-claim jobseeker's allowance does not include a couple so entitled by virtue of regulations under paragraph 8A of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers Order.”

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 56 in operation at 17.2.2016 by S.R. 2016/46, art. 3(2)(b)(i)