The Social Security (Capital Limits and Earnings Disregards Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Capital Limits and Earnings Disregards Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation—

(a) for the purposes of this regulation on 1st April 2001;

(b) for the purposes of regulation 2(3) and for the purposes of regulation 3 and 4 and paragraph 1 of the Schedule (in so far as those regulations and that paragraph relate to housing benefit)—

(i) in a case where rent or rates are payable at intervals of a whole number of weeks, on 2nd April 2001, and

(ii) in any other case, on 1st April 2001;

(c) for all other purposes, on 9th April 2001.

(2) Regulation 2(1) shall, in relation to any particular claimant for income support, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after the 9th April 2001 and in this paragraph “benefit week”(1) and “claimant” shall have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations.

(3) Regulation 2(2) shall, in relation to any particular claimant for a jobseeker’s allowance, have effect from the first day of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 9th April 2001 and in this paragraph “benefit week”(2) shall have the same meaning as in regulation 1(2) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.

(4) In these Regulations—

“the Housing Benefit Regulations” means the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(3);

“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(4);

“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(5).

(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(6) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

(1)

The definition of “benefit week” was amended by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1988 No. 318

(2)

The definition of “benefit week” was amended by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 358 and regulation 2(2)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 503

(3)

S.R. 1987 No. 461; relevant amending Rules are S.R. 1988 No. 424, S.R. 1989 No. 125, S.R. 1990 No. 137, S.R. 1992 No. 298, S.R. 1993 Nos. 145 and 381 and S.R. 1996 No. 93

(4)

S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Rules are S.R. 1988 Nos. 318 and 431, S.R. 1989 Nos. 139 and 395, S.R. 1990 No. 137, S.R. 1992 Nos. 147 and 298, S.R. 1993 Nos. 120 and 149, S.R. 1996 No. 93, S.R. 1998 No. 112, S.R. 1999 No. 472 (C. 36)

(5)

S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending Rules are S.R. 1996 Nos. 356, 358 and 503, S.R. 1997 No. 22, S.R. 1998 No. 112, S.R. 1999 No. 428 (C. 32) and S.R. 2000 No. 350

(6)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)