PART 3AMENDMENTS TO SECONDARY LEGISLATION
Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations20
1
The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 104 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (9).
2
In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—
a
after the definition of “broad rental market area determination”105 insert—
“the Caxton Foundation” means the charitable trust of that name established on 28th March 2011, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from hepatitis C and other persons eligible for payment in accordance with its provisions;
b
in the definition of “qualifying person”106, after “the Skipton Fund” insert “, the Caxton Foundation”.
3
In regulation 10 (persons from abroad) omit paragraph 5(f)(i)107.
4
In regulation 36(1) (earnings of self-employed earners) omit the words beginning “and shall include” to the end of the paragraph.
5
In regulation 40 (income paid to third parties)—
a
in paragraph (1) for “paragraph (2)” substitute “paragraphs (2) or (3)”; and
b
after paragraph (2) add—
3
Paragraph (1) shall not apply in respect of any amount of income other than earnings, or earnings derived from employment as an employed earner, arising out of the claimant’s participation in a service user group.
6
In regulation 53(10)(b)108 (non-dependant deductions) after “MFET Limited” insert “, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation”.
7
In—
a
regulation 63(4)(a)(ii)109 (evidence and information); and
b
Schedule 7 (capital to be disregarded) paragraph 16(1)(a)110,
after “the Skipton Fund” insert “, the Caxton Foundation”.