The Child Benefit (General) Regulations 2003

Circumstances in which a person is treated as not being in Northern Ireland

25.—(1) A person shall be treated as not being in Northern Ireland for the purposes of section 142(2) of the Contributions and Benefits (NI) Act if he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

(2) A person who is in Northern Ireland as a result of his deportation, expulsion or other removal by compulsion of law from another country to Northern Ireland shall be treated as being ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.