The Housing Benefit (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 No. 123

Regulation 4(a)

SCHEDULE 1 Substitution of Part I of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

SCHEDULE 2 Applicable Amounts

Regulations 16(a) and (b) and 17(a), (b) and (c)

Part I Personal Allowances

1.   The amounts specified in column (2) in respect of each person or couple specified in column (1) shall be the amounts specified for the purposes of regulations 16(a) and 17(a) and (b)—

Column (1)	Column (2)
Person or Couple	Amount
(1) Single claimant aged—
(b) less than 25;	(1) (b) £38·90;
(c) not less than 25.	(c) £49·15.
(2) Lone parent aged—
(a) less than 18;	(2) (a) £38·90;
(b) not less than 18.	(b) £49·15.
(3) Couple—
(a) where both members are aged less than 18;	(3) (a) £58·70;
(b) where at least one member is aged not less than 18.	(b) £77·15.

2.— (1) The amounts specified in column (2) in respect of each person specified in column (1) shall, for the relevant period specified in column (1), be the amounts specified for the purposes of regulations 16(b) and 17(c)—

Column (1)	Column (2)
Child or Young Person	Amount
Person in respect of the period—
(a) beginning on, and including, that person’s date of birth and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s eleventh birthday;	(a) £16·90;
(b) beginning on, and including, the first Monday in September following that person’s eleventh birthday and ending on the day preceding the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday;	(b) £24·75;
(c) beginning on, and including, the first Monday in September following that person’s sixteenth birthday and ending on the day preceding that person’s nineteenth birthday.	(c) £29·60.

(2) In column (1) of the table in paragraph (1) “the first Monday in September” means the Monday which first occurs in the month of September in any year.