The Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

77.—(1) The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation) at the end of the definition of “the EEA Regulations” insert “and references to the EEA Regulations are to be read with Schedule 4 to the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020(Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Regulations 2020”.

(3) In regulation 9 (persons treated as not being in Northern Ireland) —

(a) in paragraph (3)

(i) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “or Article 6 of Council Directive No. 2004/38/EC”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c) omit “or Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (in a case where the right to reside arises because a British citizen would otherwise be deprived of the genuine enjoyment of their rights as a European citizen)”;

(b) after paragraph (4)(ca) insert—

“(cb) a frontier worker within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Citizens’ Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020,

(cc) a family member, of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (cb), who has been granted limited leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom by virtue of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971,”.

(1)

S.R. 2016 No. 216, relevant amending instruments are S.R. 2019 No. 89 and S.R. 2020 No.130.