The Employer’s Contributions Re-imbursement Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Prescribed description of a person for the purposes of Article 29(2)(c) of the Order

4.—(1) For the purposes of Article 29(2)(c) of the Order a person falls within a prescribed description of person if—

(a) he is in receipt of a qualifying benefit for a continuous period of not less than two years, and

(b) continuously for the whole of that period he satisfied any one or more of the following conditions—

(i) he is undergoing a course of training for which a training allowance is payable;

(ii) he is available or treated as available for employment under regulation 9 of the Income Support Regulations or under regulations made under section 25A(1)(a) of the Benefits Act;

(iii) he is a carer;

(iv) he is a lone parent.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) in determining whether a person has been entitled to a qualifying benefit for any period, any benefit week on any day of which that person was entitled to unemployment benefit shall be treated as a period throughout which that person was entitled to a qualifying benefit.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) in determining whether there has been a continuous period of not less than two years where a person has periods throughout which he is a qualifying person separated by breaking periods, the periods throughout which the person is a qualifying person shall be aggregated together and treated as a single period, and the intervening breaking periods shall be excluded in the computation of that single period.

(4) In this regulation “qualifying person” means a person who is entitled to a qualifying benefit and is of a description specified in paragraph (1).