PART 3AMENDMENTS OF SECONDARY LEGISLATION
CHAPTER 1SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments RegulationsI129
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The Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200082 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
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In regulation 2 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Act)—
a
after paragraph (1) insert—
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For the purposes of entitlement to universal credit, a person falling within a category or description of persons specified in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part I of the Schedule is a person to whom section 115 of the Act does not apply.
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in paragraph (5)—
i
after “entitlement to” insert “universal credit,”,
ii
for “a jobseeker’s allowance” substitute “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995”, and
iii
before “employment and support allowance” insert “income-related”.
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In the heading to Part I of the Schedule (persons not excluded from certain benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)85 after “entitlement to” insert “universal credit,”.