Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Schedule 3

12.  In Schedule 3 (sums to be disregarded in the determination of income other than earnings)(1)—

(a) in paragraph 24(1), at the end, add—

“(d) which is a payment made by an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(2), in pursuance of Article 15 of, and paragraph 17 of Schedule 1 to, that Order (contribution by an authority to a child’s maintenance);”;

(b) for paragraph 26, substitute—

“26.   Any payment made to the relevant person or his partner for a person (“the person concerned”), who is not normally a member of the relevant person’s household but is temporarily in his care, by—

(a) a Health and Social Services Board;

(b) a training school;

(c) a voluntary organisation; or

(d) the person concerned pursuant to Article 36(7) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(3).”;

(c) for paragraph 28, substitute—

“28.— (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any payment received under an insurance policy taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments—

(a) on a loan which is secured on the dwelling which the relevant person occupies as his home; or

(b) under a regulated agreement as defined for the purposes of the Consumer Credit Act 1974(4) or under a hire-purchase agreement or a conditional sale agreement as defined in section 5 of the Consumer Protection Act (Northern Ireland) 1965(5).

(2) A payment referred to in sub-paragraph (1) shall only be disregarded to the extent that the payment received under that policy does not exceed the amounts, calculated on a weekly basis, which are used to—

(a) maintain the repayments referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or, as the case may be, (b); and

(b) meet any amount due by way of premiums on—

(i) that policy; or

(ii) in a case to which sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies, an insurance policy taken out to insure against loss or damage to any building or part of a building which is occupied by the relevant person as his home and which is required as a condition of the loan referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a).”;

(d) in paragraph 33, for “paragraphs 12”, substitute “paragraphs 12(1)”;

(e) at the end, add—

“60.   Any mandatory top-up payment made to a person pursuant to section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 in respect of that person’s participation in an employment programme specified in—

(a) regulation 75(1)(a)(i)(bb)(6) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations;

(b) regulation 75(1)(a)(ii) of those Regulations; or

(c) regulation 75(1)(a)(iii) of those Regulations.

61.   Any discretionary payment to meet or help meet special needs made to a person pursuant to section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 in respect of that person’s participation in the Full-Time Education and Training Option of the New Deal as specified in regulation 75(1)(b)(ii) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.

62.— (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), any discretionary payment made pursuant to section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 to meet, or help meet, special needs of a person who is undertaking a qualifying course within the meaning specified in regulation 17A(7) of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.

(2) No amount shall be disregarded pursuant to sub-paragraph (1) in respect of travel expenses incurred as a result of the student’s attendance on the course where an amount in respect of those expenses has already been disregarded pursuant to regulation 44 (other amounts to be disregarded).

63.   Any child care expenses reimbursed to the relevant person in respect of his participation in the intensive activity period (New Deal) programme but this paragraph does not apply to any part of any allowance under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950.

64.   Any mandatory top-up payment made to a person pursuant to section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 in respect of that person’s participation in the intensive activity period (New Deal) programme.”.

(1)

Schedule 3 was amended by S.R. 1998 No. 396

(2)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)

(3)

S.I. 1972/1275 (N.I. 14); Article 36 was substituted by Article 25 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/194 (N.I. 1))

(4)

1974 c. 39

(5)

1965 c. 14 (N.I.); section 5 was amended by section 66(4) of, and Schedule 6 to, the Hire Purchase Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (c. 42 (N.I.)) and by paragraph 46 of Schedule 4 to the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (c. 39)

(6)

Head (i) was substituted by regulation 4(2) of S.R. 1998 No. 182