The Housing Benefit (General and Supply of Information) (Jobseeker’s Allowance) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 No. 334

Amendment of regulation 67 of the principal Regulations

12.  In regulation 67 of the principal Regulations (date on which benefit period is to end)(1)—

(a) the existing provision shall be numbered (1);

(b) in paragraph (1)(a)—

(i) at the beginning there shall be inserted “subject to paragraph (2),”, and

(ii) after “income support” there shall be inserted “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”;

(c) in paragraph (1)(b)—

(i) after “income support” in each place where it occurs there shall be inserted “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”, and

(ii) for “the principal Act” there shall be substituted “the benefit Acts”;

(d) after paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2) Paragraph (1)(a) shall not apply where—

(a) the claimant ceases to be entitled to income support and immediately after that entitlement ceases an entitlement to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance commences for him, or

(b) the claimant ceases to be entitled to an income-based jobseeker’s allowance and immediately after that entitlement ceases an entitlement to income support commences for him.”.

(1)

Regulation 67 was amended by regulation 9 of S.R. 1990 No. 136 and regulation 8 of S.R. 1995 No. 89