PART 1General

Citation and commencementI11

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Payments on Account of Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016.

2

The following provisions come into operation on the day appointed for the coming into force of Article 76(1) of the 2015 Order—

a

this Part (except the provisions specified in paragraph (3)(a) and (b));

b

Part 2 (except the provisions specified in paragraph (3)(c) to (g));

c

Part 4.

3

The following provisions come into operation immediately after the coming into operation of the Universal Credit Regulations—

a

in regulation 2(1)—

i

paragraph (a) of the definition of “couple”, and

ii

the definitions of “the UC etc. Claims and Payments Regulations”, “universal credit” and “the Universal Credit Regulations”;

b

regulation 2(2) and (3)(b);

c

regulation 3(1)(a);

d

in regulation 3(2)—

i

paragraph (a) of the definition of “employment and support allowance”, and

ii

paragraph (a) of the definition of “jobseeker’s allowance”;

e

regulation 5(3)(b);

f

regulation 7(2);

g

regulation 8(2); and

h

Part 3.