The Income Support (General) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.

In particular, regulations 2 and 3 provide respectively that, for the purposes of ascertaining entitlement to income support or to a jobseeker’s allowance in respect of claims for those benefits made on or after 26th June 2000, any grant income paid in respect of living costs for dependants of the student in accordance with regulation 15 of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 which is attributed in respect of the period in the academic year beginning on and including the day when student loans cease to be apportioned, shall be disregarded where the student was liable to pay rent during the academic year in which the claim was made.

These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.