Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal regulations

4.—(1) Regulation 7 of the principal regulations (claims for remission or payment) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) At the beginning of paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (1A),”.

(3) After paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(1A) Subject to paragraph (1B), where a person is unable for the time being to act, a claim may be made on his behalf by another person.

(1B) The Department may refuse to accept a claim made by one person on behalf of another where, in the Department’s opinion—

(a) the person on whose behalf the claim is made is able to act; or

(b) the person making the claim is not a suitable person to act on behalf of that other person.”.

(4) For paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

“(6) Subject to paragraphs (6A) and (8), a notice of entitlement issued under paragraph (4) shall be effective for a period of 6 months from the date of claim and shall specify the dates of commencement and expiry of that period.

(6A) Subject to paragraph (8), where a claimant or his partner is a person of a description specified in column (1) of Schedule 1A and the date of claim falls within any period specified in column (1), the notice of entitlement issued under paragraph (4) to that claimant shall be effective for the period specified in column (2) of that Schedule opposite the description in column (1) of that claimant or his partner.”.