The Social Security (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

10.  In regulation 105 (notional income) –

(a) paragraph (2)(c)(1) and (2A)(2) shall be omitted;

(b) in paragraph (2)(d)(3) for “working families' tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit” there shall be substituted “working tax credit or child tax credit”;

(c) in paragraph (10)(a)(4) –

(i) for “in respect of a member of the family” there shall be substituted “his partner”;

(ii) in head (i)(5) for “by that member of the family, if it would normally be paid to that member” there shall be substituted “by his partner, if it would normally be paid to his partner”;

(iii) in head (ia)(6) for “that member” there shall be substituted “the claimant’s partner”, and

(iv) in head (ii)(7) for “or by that member of the family” there shall be substituted “or his partner” and for “of any member of the family” there shall be substituted “of his partner”;

(d) for paragraph (10)(b) there shall be substituted the following –

“(b) to a single claimant or his partner in respect of a third party (but not in respect of another member of his family) shall be treated as possessed by that single claimant or, as the case may be, his partner, to the extent that it is kept or used by him or used by or on behalf of his partner;”;

(e) in paragraph (10A)(d)(iii)(8) for “any member of his family” there shall be substituted “his partner (if any)”, and

(f) in paragraph (11) for the words after “the cost of maintaining the claimant” to the end of that paragraph there shall be substituted “or his partner in that home shall be treated as possessed by the claimant or his partner”.

(1)

Paragraph (2)(c) was substituted by regulation 9(2)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 288

(2)

Paragraph (2A) was inserted by regulation 9(2)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 288

(3)

Paragraph (2)(d) was amended by regulation 2(1) and (2) of S.R. 1999 No. 385

(4)

Paragraph (10) was amended by regulation 2(1)(a) of S.R. 1998 No. 326

(5)

Head (i) was amended by regulation 4(3) of S.R. 2002 No. 128

(6)

Head (ia) was inserted by regulation 2(1)(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 391

(7)

Head (ii) was amended by paragraph 42 of Schedule 2 to S.R. 2000 No. 350

(8)

Paragraph (10A) was inserted by regulation 2(1)(b) of S.R. 1998 No. 326 and sub-paragraph (d) was added by regulation 2(3)(c) of S.R. 1999 No. 391