The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit — Increases for Dependants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 and shall come into operation as follows—

(a) regulations 1 to 15(6)(a), (6)(b)(ii) and (c)(ii), (7) and (8) on 13th April 1995; and

(b) regulation 15(6)(b)(i) and (c)(i) on 13th May 1995.

(2) In these regulations—

“the Administration Act” means the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1);

“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northeern Ireland) Act 1992;

“benefit week” means a period of seven days ending with the day on which the benefit is due to be paid;

“entitled to child benefit” includes treated as so entitled;

“parent” has the meaning that it bears for the purposes of Part IX of the Contributions and Benefits Act;

“standard rate of increase” means the amount specified in column (3) of Part IV of Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act which is appropriate in the case of the beneficiary.

(3) In these regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—

(a) a reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation in these regulations which bears that number; and

(b) a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph in that regulation which bears that number.

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