2003 No. 196
The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Made
Coming into operation
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 122(1)(d), 132(3) and (4)(b) and 171(1) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19921, and now vested in it2, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel3, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these regulations should not be referred to it4, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2003.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19545 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations2
In Schedule 2 to the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20036 (amendments to the housing benefit regulations) –
a
in paragraph 10 –
i
in sub-paragraph (1) of the substituted paragraph 16 for “a sum equal to the 30 hour element of working tax credit referred to in regulation 20(1)(c) of the Working Tax Credit Regulations” there shall be substituted “£11·90”;
ii
for sub-paragraph (3)(c) of the substituted paragraph 16 there shall be substituted the following –
c
£11·90.
b
in paragraph 11(b) for “the amount specified for that element in Schedule 2 to those Regulations” there shall be substituted “£11·90”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 24th March 2003.
The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 25th March 2003.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)