Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (interpretation)—

(a) there shall be inserted the following definition—

““amount withdrawn” means the amount by which the appropriate maximum disabled person’s tax credit or working families' tax credit, as the case may be, determined in accordance with section 127(5) or 128(8) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), as the case may be, is reduced by virtue of the claimaint’s income exceeding the applicable amount;”;

(b) for the definition of “disability working allowance” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““disabled person’s tax credit” means disabled person’s tax credit under section 128 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;”;

(c) in the definition of “family” for the words “family credit” and “disability working allowance” there shall be substituted the words “working families' tax credit” and “disabled person’s tax credit” respectively;

(d) for the definition of “family credit” there shall be substituted in the appropriate place the following definition—

““working families' tax credit” means working families' tax credit under section 127 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.”.

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 127 was amended by section 1(2) and paragraph 4(g) of Schedule 1 to the Tax Credits Act 1999 (c. 10); section 128 was amended by Article 12(2) of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Northern Ireland) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12)) and sections 1(2), 14(2) and paragraph 4(h) of Schedule 1 to the Tax Credit Act 1999