The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Amendment of the Income Support Regulations

5.—(1) The Income Support Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6).

(2) In regulation 4ZA(1) (prescribed categories of person) after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(4) A person who falls within a prescribed category in Schedule 1B(2) for the purposes of this regulation for any day in a benefit week, shall fall within that category for the whole of that week.”.

(3) In regulation 40(3A)(3) (calculation of income other than earnings) for “week” there shall be substituted “benefit week”.

(4) After regulations 42(2)(g) (notional income) and 51(1)(b) and (2)(d)(4) (notional capital) there shall be inserted “or” and the following sub-paragraph bearing the appropriate letter—

• “any sum to which paragraph 43(a) of Schedule 10(5) (disregard of compensation for personal injuries which is administered by the Court) refers”.

(5) In regulation 61 (interpretation) in the definition of “grant income” in paragraph (c) for “paragraph 1, 2 or 7 of Schedule 1” there shall be substituted “paragraph 1, 2, 10, 11 or 12 of Schedule 1B”(6).

(6) In Part II of Schedule 4 (persons to whom regulation 19 does not apply) paragraphs 15(7) and 16 shall be omitted.

(1)

Regulation 4ZA was inserted by regulation 4 of S.R. 1996 No. 199

(2)

Schedule 1B was inserted by regulation 22 of, and Schedule 1 to, S.R. 1996 No. 199

(3)

Paragraph (3A) was inserted by regulation 4(4)(b) of S.R. 1990 No. 297 and amended by regulation 8 of S.R. 1991 No. 46

(4)

Regulations 42(2)(g) and 51(2)(d) were added by regulation 2(4)(a) and 2(5) of S.R. 1995 No. 367 respectively and regulation 51(1)(b) was substituted by regulation 3 of S.R. 1990 No. 346

(5)

Paragraph 43 was added by regulation 2(11)(b) of S.R. 1994 No. 327 and amended by regulation 7(5) and (6)(d) of these Regulations

(6)

Schedule 1B was inserted by regulation 22 of, and Schedule 1 to, S.R. 1996 No. 199; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 440

(7)

Paragraph 15 was amended by paragraph 6(12)(f) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 1993 No. 149