2.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) Regulation 28 (fractional amounts of benefit) shall be renumbered paragraph (1) of regulation 28 and –
(a)at the beginning of that paragraph there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraph (2),”;
(b)in that paragraph for “regulation” there shall be substituted “paragraph”; and
(c)after that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph –
“(2) Where the amount of any maternity allowance payable would, but for this paragraph, include a fraction of a penny, that fraction shall be treated as a penny.”.
(3) In Schedule 8C(2) (deductions from benefit in respect of child support maintenance and payment to persons with care) –
(a)in paragraph 1 in the definition of “maintenance” before “means” there shall be inserted “, except in paragraph 3,”; and
(b)in paragraph 3, after sub-paragraph (2) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph –
“(3) In sub-paragraph (1) “maintenance” means child support maintenance within the meaning of Article 4(6) of the Order –
(a)before the amendment of Article 4(6) by section 1(2)(a) of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act (Northern ireland) 2000;
(b)after that amendment; or
(c)both before and after that amendment,
and includes maintenance payable at a transitional rate in accordance with regulations made under section 28(2)(a) of that Act.”.
S.R. 1987 No. 465; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 22
Schedule 8C was inserted by the Schedule to S.R. 2001 No. 22