Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another

9.—(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation a person shall be treated as responsible for a child or young person who is normally living with him.

(2) Where there is a question as to which person a child or young person is normally living with, the child or young person shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph (1) as normally living with –

(a) the person who is receiving child benefit in respect of him or, if no-one is in that position, with whom he has been placed under Article 27(2) of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(1); or

(b) if there is no such person –

(i) where only one claim for child benefit has been made in respect of him, the person who made that claim, or

(ii) in any other case the person who has the primary responsibility for him.

(3) For the purposes of these Regulations any person other than the one treated as responsible for the child or young person under this regulation shall be treated as not so responsible.

(1)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)