The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Amendment of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations

4.—(1) The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 63(7)(2) (review in income support cases) at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to regulation 63B (further provision on reviews in income support cases and jobseeker’s allowance cases),”.

(3) In regulation 63A(9)(3) (review in jobseeker’s allowance cases) at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to regulation 63B (further provision on reviews in income support cases and jobseeker’s allowance cases),”.

(4) After regulation 63A there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Further provision on reviews in income support cases and jobseeker’s allowance cases

63B.   Where, in any case to which regulation 63(7) or 63A(9) applies (reviews of housing costs on the anniversaries of the date on which a claimant’s mortgage interest costs are first met for income support or jobseeker’s allowance), a claimant has been continuously in receipt of or treated as having been continuously in receipt of income support or jobseeker’s allowance, or one of those benefits followed by the other, and he or his partner continues to receive either benefit, the anniversary to which those paragraphs refer shall be the anniversary of the earliest date on which benefit (whether income support or jobseeker’s allowance) in respect of those mortgage interest costs became payable.”.

(1)

S.R. 1995 No. 293; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 434 and S.R. 1996 Nos. 355, 432 and 499

(2)

Paragraph (7) was substituted by regulation 3(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 432

(3)

Regulation 63A was inserted by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 1996 No. 355; paragraph (9) was added by regulation 3(3) of S.R. 1996 No. 432 and amended by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 499