The Income Support (General) (Jobseeker’s Allowance Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Insertion of regulation 4ZA in the principal Regulations

4.  In Part II of the principal Regulations (conditions of entitlement) there shall be inserted at the beginning the following regulation—

“Prescribed categories of person

4ZA.— (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person to whom any paragraph of Schedule 1B applies falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 123(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to income support).

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a student during the period of study.

(3) A student during the period of study falls within a prescribed category of person for the purposes of section 123(1)(e) of the Contributions and Benefits Act only if—

(a) regulation 70(3)(a) applies to him;

(b) paragraph 1, 2, 10, 11, 12 or 18 of Schedule 1B applies to him; or

(c) any other paragraph of Schedule 1B applies to him and he has a partner who is also a student, and either he or his partner is treated as responsible for a child or young person, but this provision shall apply only for the period of the summer vacation appropriate to his course.”.