6.—(1) The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Loss of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), at the appropriate place insert—
““the administrative period” means the period beginning on 31st March 2020 and ending on the day the Welfare Supplementary Payment (Extension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 are made;”.
(3) In regulation 2, after paragraph (2) insert—
“(3) Where the date mentioned in regulation 7(2), 12(2) or 20(2) is in the administrative period, that provision’s requirement that welfare supplementary payment must cease to be paid from that date is to be read as a requirement that welfare supplementary payment must not be paid for times on or after that date.”.
(4) In regulation 6—
(a)in paragraph (3)(b) for “on 31st March 2020” substitute “on 31st March 2025”;
(b)in paragraph (6)(b) for “on 31st March 2020” substitute “on 31st March 2025”;
(c)after that paragraph insert—
“(7) The provisions of this regulation have effect subject to regulation 6A.”
(5) After regulation 6 insert—
6A. (1) The period during which welfare supplementary payment is payable does not include any times in the administrative period.
(2) The period during which further welfare supplementary payment is payable does not include any times in the administrative period.”
(6) In regulation 11—
(a)in paragraph (3)(b) for “on 31st March 2020” substitute “on 31st March 2025”;
F1(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7) In regulation 19—
(a)in paragraph (4)(b) for “on 31st March 2020” substitute “on 31st March 2025”;
F2(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 6(6)(b) omitted (1.3.2023) by virtue of The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Extension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/25), regs. 1(3), 7(3)
F2Reg. 6(7)(b) omitted (1.3.2023) by virtue of The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Extension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/25), regs. 1(3), 7(3)
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 6 in operation at 1.2.2022, see reg. 1(2)
S.R. 2016 No. 250. Regulation 7(2) was substituted, and regulations 12(2) and 20(2) were amended, by S.R. 2017 No. 28.