The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I GENERAL

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. PART II MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO INVALID CARE ALLOWANCE

   1. 3. Prescribed payments out of public funds which constitute the persons in respect of whom they are payable as severely disabled persons

   2. 4. Circumstances in which persons are or are not to be treated as engaged or regularly and substantially engaged in caring for severely disabled persons

   3. 5. Circumstances in which persons are to be regarded as receiving full-time education

   4. 6. Prescribed relationships between severely disabled persons and persons engaged in caring for them

   5. 7. Manner of electing the person entitled to an invalid care allowance in respect of a severely disabled person where, but for section 37(7) of the Act, more than one person would be entitled to an invalid care allowance in respect of that severely disabled person

   6. 8. Circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed

   7. 9. Conditions relating to residence and presence in Northern Ireland

   8. 10. Circumstances in which a person over pensionable age is to be treated as having been entitled to invalid care allowance immediately before attaining that age

   9. 11. Invalid care allowance for persons over retiring age

   10. 12. Increase of invalid care allowance for child dependants

   11. 13. Increase of invalid care allowance for adult dependants

   12. 14. Application of the Social Security (General Benefit) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1975 to invalid care allowance

4. PART III CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS

   1. 15. Amendment of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

   2. 16. Amendment of Part V of the Social Security (Determination of Claims and Questions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

   3. 17. Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

   4. 18. Amendment of the National Insurance (Graduated Retirement Benefit and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1961

   5. 19. Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

   6. 20. Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

   7. 21. Amendment of the Social Security (Widow's Benefit and Retirement Pensions) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1975

   8. 22. Amendment of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975

5. Signature

6. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      Provisions of the Social Security (General Benefit) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1975 applied to invalid care allowance

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Regulation 2(3) of the National Insurance (Graduated Retirement Benefit and Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1961 as amended by these regulations

7. Explanatory Note