The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations

9.—(1) The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “couple” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

““Crown property” means property held by Her Majesty in right of the Crown or by a government department or which is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, except (in the case of an interest held by Her Majesty in right of the Crown) where the interest is under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners;

“Crown Estate Commissioners” have the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978;”.

(3) In Schedule 1 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings) for paragraph 6 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“6.   Any payment made by—

(a) an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, to a person who is caring for a child by virtue of arrangements made under Article 27(2)(a) of that Order or by a voluntary organisation under Article 75(1)(a) of that Order; or

(b) a training school, within the meaning of section 137 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, under paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 5 to that Act to a person who is caring for a child and with whom that child lives or is boarded out under paragraph 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 5 to that Act.”.

(4) In Schedule 2 (child care charges to be deducted in the calculation of earnings) in paragraph 2 in the definition of “relevant child care charges”—

(a) in paragraph (a) at the end “or” shall be omitted;

(b) after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(aa) by a child care scheme operating on Crown property where registration under Article 118 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 is not required; or”.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 520