Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

3.  In regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (description of persons entitled to full remission and payment) in paragraph (1) there shall be added at the end of head (l)(1) the word “or” and the following sub-paragraph—

“(m) a person who lives permanently in accommodation arranged under Article 15 or 36 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(2) (General Social Welfare/ Provision of accommodation in premises maintained by voluntary organisations, etc.), and who has satisfied the Department that he is unable to pay for that accommodation at the standard rate or, as the case may be, the full rate, and for the purposes of this paragraph a person lives permanently in such accommodation if it is his principal place of abode.”.

(1)

Sub-paragraphs (g) to (j) were added by S.R. 1995 No. 138 and sub-paragraphs (g), (i) and (j) were substituted and (k) and (l) were added by S.R. 1996 No. 425

(2)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14); Article 15 was amended by Part II of Schedule 5 to S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1) and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 1992/3204 (N.I. 20); Article 36 was substituted by Article 25 of S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1) and amended by paragraph 2(4) and (5) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 1992/3204 (N.I. 20)