The Social Security (Amendment) (Residential Care and Nursing Homes) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

17.  In Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

(a) in paragraph 9(1), the words from “, but, where” to the end shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph 15(2)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2)(3)—

(aa) for “sub-paragraphs (3) and (6)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (3)”;

(bb) “or any accommodation charges to the extent that they are met under regulation 19 (persons in residential care or nursing homes)” shall be omitted;

(ii) sub-paragraph (6)(4) shall be omitted;

(c) in paragraph 15A(5), sub-paragraph (3) shall be omitted;

(d) in paragraph 15B(6), head (a) in sub-paragraph (1) shall be omitted;

(e) in paragraph 30(1)(e), for “increased, where appropriate, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 (applicable amounts of persons in residential care homes and nursing homes) exceeds the amount determined in accordance with regulation 19 (residential care and nursing homes) or” there shall be substituted “exceeds”;

(f) in paragraph 30A(7)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (2), “, or whose applicable amount falls to be calculated in accordance with regulation 19” shall be omitted;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3), for head (a) there shall be substituted the following head—

“(a) the claimant’s applicable amount; and”;

(g) in paragraph 67(2)(8), “or any accommodation charges to the extent that they are met under regulation 19 (persons in residential care or nursing homes)” shall be omitted.

(1)

Paragraph 9 was substituted by regulation 4(5)(a) of S.R. 1993 No. 165

(2)

Paragraph 15 was substituted by regulation 20(a) of S.R. 1990 No. 131

(3)

Sub-paragraph (2) was amended by regulation 4(22)(b)(i) of S.R. 1993 No. 373, paragraph 1(7)(a) of Schedule 1 to S.R. 1993 No. 149 and regulation 4(9)(a) of S.R. 1994 No. 77

(4)

Sub-paragraph (6) was substituted by regulation 4(22)(b)(iii) of S.R. 1993 No. 373

(5)

Paragraph 15A was inserted by regulation 4(5)(c) of S.R. 1993 No. 165

(6)

Paragraph 15B was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 1996 No. 78

(7)

Paragraph 30A was inserted by regulation 4(22)(e) of S.R. 1993 No. 373

(8)

Paragraph 67 was added by regulation 5(4) of S.R. 1999 No. 342