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

Amendment of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations

9.  In regulation 3 of the Discretionary Financial Assistance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(1) (circumstances in which discretionary housing payments may be made) after paragraph (h) there shall be added the following paragraph—

(i)a restriction in relation to the payment of benefit imposed pursuant to section 6, 7 or 8 of the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (loss of benefit provisions)..