The Tax Credits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2000

Interpretative amendments

2.—(1) In each of the regulations specified in paragraph (2) below (interpretation), there shall be inserted the following definitions in the appropriate places—

““employment zone” means an area within Great Britain designated by the Employment Zones Regulations 2000(1) for the purposes of section 60 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999(2) and an “employment zone programme” means a programme established for an employment zone or zones designed to assist claiments for a jobseeker’s allowance to obtain sustainable employment;”;

““employment zone contractor” means a person who is undertaking the provision of facilities in respect of an employment zone programme on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education and Employment;”;

““subsistence allowance” means an allowance which an employment zone contractor has agreed to pay to a person who is participating in an employment zone programme, which is equal to the amount of income-based jobseeker’s allowance which that person would have received in a benefit week had it been payable to him, less 50p;”.

(2) The regulations specified in this paragraph are—

(a) regulation 2 of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations;

(b) regulation 2(1) of the Family Credit Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2000/721.

(2)

1999 c. 30.