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

6.  In regulation 21 (special cases)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(1), after “Subject to” there shall be inserted “paragraph (1B),”;

(b) after paragraph (1A)(2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1B) An amount shall only be applicable under paragraph 10A(3), 10B(4), 10C(5) or 13 of Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases) where an amount was applicable to a person under any of those paragraphs on 7th April 2002 and shall only continue to be applicable to that person after that date for so long as the relevant conditions in column (1) of that Schedule continue to apply to him.”;

(c) in paragraph (3A)(6) “within the meaning of regulation 19(2) (persons in residential care homes and nursing homes)” shall be omitted.

(1)

Paragraph (1) was amended by regulation 4(3) of S.R. 1994 No. 77, regulation 12 of S.R. 1996 No. 199 and regulation 2(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 449

(2)

Paragraph (1A) was inserted by regulation 3 of S.R. 1991 No. 170

(3)

Paragraph 10A was inserted by regulation 34(b) of S.R. 1988 No. 146

(4)

Paragraph 10B was inserted by regulation 34(b) of S.R. 1988 No. 146

(5)

Paragraph 10C was inserted by regulation 19(c) of S.R. 1988 No. 431

(6)

Paragraph (3A) was inserted by regulation 2(b) of S.R. 1991 No. 345 and amended by paragraph 6(6) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 1993 No. 149 and regulation 2 of S.R. 1996 No. 489