The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 14 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 14 and Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2019.

(2) In this Order—

“the Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;

“the No. 8 Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No 8 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017(1);

“the No. 9 Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2017(2);

“the No. 10 Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2018(3);

“the No. 11 Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Order 2018(4);

“the No. 12 Order” means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (Commencement No. 12 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Commencement No. 9, 10 and 11 and Transitional and Transitory Provisions (Amendment)) Order 2018(5);

“the Claims and Payments Regulations 1987” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(6);

“employment and support allowance” means an employment and support allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007(7);

“Her Majesty’s forces” has the same meaning in the Armed Forces Act 2006(8);

“jobseeker’s allowance” means a jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(9);

“joint-claim couple” has the same meaning as in the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;

“the UC Commencement Orders” means the No. 8 Order, the No. 9 Order, the No. 10 Order, the No. 11 Order and the No. 12 Order;

“UC couple” means a couple as defined in Article 45 of the Order;

“UC joint claimants” means joint claimants as defined in Article 46 of the Order;

“UC provisions” means the provisions of the Order listed in Schedule 1 to the No. 8 Order;

“UC single claimant” means a single claimant as defined in Article 46 of the Order.

(3) In this Order—

(a) “frontier worker” means a person, other than a person referred to in sub-paragraph (b), who is in Northern Ireland for the purposes of Article 9(1)(c) of the Order but who does not reside in Great Britain or Northern Ireland;

(b) the person referred to is a crown servant or member of Her Majesty’s forces posted overseas (where “crown servant” and “posted overseas” have the same meanings as in regulation 10 of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(10).

(1)

S.R. 2017 No. 190 (C. 11).

(2)

S.R. 2017 No. 216 (C. 13).

(3)

S.R. 2018 No. 1 (C. 1).

(4)

S.R. 2018 No. 97 (C. 8).

(5)

S.R. 2018 No. 138 (C. 12).

(6)

S.R.1987 No. 465.

(7)

2007 c. 2 (N.I.).

(8)

2006 c. 52.

(9)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15).

(10)

S.R. 2016 No. 216.