The Social Security (Loss of Benefit) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations

2.—(1) The Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “the Contributions and Benefits Act”(2) there shall be inserted the following definition—

““the Fraud Act” means the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001;”.

(3) In regulation 7A(1)(3) (credits for invalid care allowance) after “paid to him” there shall be inserted “or would be paid to him but for a restriction under section 6 of the Fraud Act (loss of benefit provisions)”.

(4) In regulation 8A(2)(4) (credits for unemployment) after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be added—

“or

(d) a week in respect of which he would have been paid a jobseeker’s allowance but for a restriction imposed pursuant to section 6, 7 or 8 of the Fraud Act (loss of benefit provisions).”.

(1)

S.R. 1975 No. 113; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1976 No. 99, S.R. 1987 No. 153, S.R. 1988 No. 326 S.R. 1995 No. 150, S.R. 1996 No. 430 and S.R. 2001 No. 108

(2)

The definition of “the Contributions and Benefits Act” was inserted by regulation 6(2) of S.R. 1995 No. 150

(3)

Regulation 7A was inserted by regulation 19 of S.R. 1976 No. 99 and paragraph (1) was amended by regulation 6(a) of S.R. 1987 No. 153, regulation 2(5)(c) of of S.R. 1988 No. 326 and regulation 3(5) of S.R. 2001 No. 108

(4)

Regulation 8A was inserted by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 1996 No. 430