Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations
2. In the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1)––
(a)in regulation 26(2) (calculation of income and capital of students), for the words from “have effect” to the end of the regulation, there shall be substituted “have effect in relation to students and their partners subject to the modifications set out in Chapter VIII thereof (students)”;
(b)for the title to Chapter VIII of Part V, there shall be substituted “STUDENTS”;
(c)in Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—
(i)in paragraph 59(1)(3), for “full-time student” there shall be substituted “student”;
(ii)in paragraph 64(2)(4), for the words from “as a result of” to the end of the sub-paragraph, there shall be substituted “as a result of the student’s attendance on the course where an amount in respect of those expenses has already been disregarded pursuant to regulation 66(1) (student’s income to be disregarded).”.
S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 199, S.R. 1998 No. 326 and S.R. 2000 Nos. 71 and 241
Regulation 26 was amended by regulation 3(5) of, and the Schedule to, S.R. 2000 No. 241
Paragraph 59(1) was amended by regulation 3(5) of, and the Schedule to, S.R. 2000 No. 241
Paragraph 64(2) was added by regulation 4(4) of S.R 1998 No. 326 and amended by regulation 3(5) of S.R. 2000 No. 241