The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 No. 1

Prospective

SCHEDULE 3 N.I. AMENDMENTS TO THE JOBSEEKER'S ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS

2.  In regulation 76 (persons of a prescribed description) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph– N.I.

“(3) A person of a prescribed description for the purposes of the definition of “family” in Article 2 of the Order includes a child or young person in respect of whom section 141A of the Benefits Act applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under section 141A(1) of that Act.”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 3 para. 2 in operation at 6.4.2003 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(6)