PART 2Provisions affecting entitlement to rate relief

Exclusions from rate relief

Modification of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations13.

Regulation 2 of and Part I of the Schedule to the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200011 shall apply for the purposes of these Regulations as they apply for the purposes of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations with the following modifications—

(a)

as if in regulation 2—

(i)

in paragraph (1) for “income-based jobseeker’s allowance, income support, a social fund payment or housing benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act, as the case may be,” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(ii)

paragraphs (2), (3), (4)(b), (5) were omitted;

(iii)

in paragraph (4)(a) for “income support, a social fund payment or housing benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act, as the case may be,” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(iv)

in paragraph (6)—

(aa)

for “housing benefit or a social fund payment under the Contributions and Benefits Act, as the case may be,” there were substituted “rate relief”;

(bb)

after “regulation 11(4)” there were inserted “of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000”;

(b)

as if in Part I of the Schedule for the title there were substituted “Persons not excluded from rate relief under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999”.