Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010

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11.—(1) Article 5 (the income-based conditions) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for “Article 3(2A)(b)” substitute “Article 3A(3)(b)”.

(3) After that paragraph insert—

(1A) The conditions referred to in Article 3A(4)(d) are that the claimant—

(a)satisfies the conditions set out in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c), (dd), (de) and (e)

(b)is not a member of a couple the other member of which is entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance; and

(c)is a person—

(i)who has reached the age of 18; or

(ii)who has reached the age of 16 but not the age of 18 and falls within a prescribed description of person..