The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 1

HOUSING; RATES; SOCIAL SECURITY

The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

2nd January 2003

Coming into operation in accordance with regulations 1(2) to (6)

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 122(1)(a) and (d), 131(1), 132(3) and (4)(a), (b) and (c), 133(2)(m) and 171(1) and (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1) and Articles 14(2), (3) and (4)(b), 36(2) of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2) and now vested in it(3), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, by this statutory rule, which contains only regulations which are consequential upon sections 1(1) and (3)(d) and 60 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Tax Credits Act 2002(4) and which is made before the end of a period of six months from the commencement of those provisions, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel(5) in so far as regulation 3 and Schedule 2 are concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

1992 c. 7

(2)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)

(3)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(4)

2002 c. 21

(5)

See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481