Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations
5.—(1) The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) after the definition of “the Child Support Order” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““the Fraud Act” means the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001;”.
(3) In regulation 47(4)(b)(ii)(2) (jobseeking period) after “Article 22A of the Order” there shall be added “or by virtue of a restriction imposed pursuant to section 6, 7 or 8 of the Fraud Act (loss of benefit provisions);”.
(4) In Schedule 1 (applicable amounts)—
(a)in paragraph 15 (severe disability premium) after sub-paragraph (8) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(9) In sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (2)(d), references to a person being in receipt of an invalid care allowance shall include references to a person who would have been in receipt of that allowance but for the application of a restriction under section 6 of the Fraud Act (loss of benefit provisions).”;
(b)in paragraph 20I(3) (severe disability premium) after sub-paragraph (6) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(7) In sub-paragraph (1)(d), the reference to a person being in receipt of an invalid care allowance shall include a reference to a person who would have been in receipt of that allowance but for the application of a restriction under section 6 of the Fraud Act (loss of benefit provisions).”.
S.R. 1996 No. 198; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 358, S.R. 2000 No. 350 and S.R. 2001 No. 120
Paragraph (4)(b) was substituted by regulation 14(3) of S.R. 1996 No. 358 and amended by regulation 2(5) of S.R. 2001 No. 120
Paragraph 20I was inserted by paragraph 53(4) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 2000 No. 350