The Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Persons of a prescribed description

8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of Article 21(11) of the Order as it applies to disability working allowance is a person aged 16 or over but under 19 who is receiving full-time education within Article 4(1)(b) of the Child Benefit (Northern Ireland) Order 1975(1) (meaning of child), and in these regulations such a person is referred to as “a young person”.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person—

(a) who is entitled to income support or would, but for Article 21(9) of the Order, be so entitled;

(b) who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 1(2) of the Child Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(2) (interpretation); or

(c) who has ceased to receive full-time education but is to continue to be treated as a child by virtue of regulation 7 of those regulations.

(1)

Article 4(1)(b) was amended by Article 71(1)(a) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986

(2)

S.R. 1979 No. 5; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1980 No. 261, S.R. 1982 No. 114, S.R. 1987 No. 130 and S.R. 1988 No. 273