The Social Security (Claims and Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

2.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) to (7).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “appropriate office” after “Department” there shall be added “and in a case to which regulation 4A(1) applies includes an office of a relevant authority displaying the the one logo”;

(3) In regulation 4(6)(1)(making a claim for benefit), at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to regulation 4A,”.

(4) In each of the provisions specified in sub-paragraph (5) for “Department”, in each place where that word occurs, there shall be substituted “employment officer”.

(5) Those provisions are—

(a) regulation 4(6)(a) (making a claim for benefit), and

(b) regulation 6(4A)(2) (date of claim).

(6) In regulation 7(1)(3) (evidence and information), after “Department”, in the first place where that word occurs, there shall be inserted “or, in a case where regulation 4A applies, the relevant authority”.

(7) In regulation 19(5)(d)(4) (time for claiming benefit), after “Department” there shall be inserted “or, in a case to which regulation 4A applies, a representative of a relevant authority”.

(8) In regulation 32 (information to be given when obtaining payment of benefit), after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) In the case of a person who made a claim for benefit in accordance with regulation 4A(1), a change of circumstances may be notified to a relevant authority at any office to which the claim for benefit could be made in accordance with that regulation.”.

(9) In paragraph 2A(1)(b) of Schedule 7(5) (manner and time of payment and commencement of entitlement in income support cases) after “social security office” there shall be inserted “or any office to which a claim may be made in accordance with regulation 4A(1)”.

(1)

Paragraph (6) was substituted by regulation 2(4)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 354

(2)

Paragraph (4A)was substituted by regulation 3(4)(d) of S.R. 1997 No. 156

(3)

Paragraph (1) was amended by regulation 2(6)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 354

(4)

Regulation 19 was substituted by regulation 3(7) of S.R. 1997 No. 156

(5)

Paragraph 2A was inserted by regulation 5(2) of S.R. 1989 No. 40