http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/449/regulation/1/made

The Income Support and Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Income support

Benefits

Housing benefit

Asylum

Council tax

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SOCIAL SECURITY

These Regulations amend the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 so as to provide with respect to a claimant for income support for his entitlement to that benefit for the period from and including the date of his claim for asylum, or 5th February 1996 if that is later, up to the date of his being recorded by the Secretary of State as a refugee within the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951 (Cmnd. 9171).