Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2003.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations
2. In Schedule 2 to the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003(2) (amendments to the housing benefit regulations) –
(a)in paragraph 10 –
(i)in sub-paragraph (1) of the substituted paragraph 16 for “a sum equal to the 30 hour element of working tax credit referred to in regulation 20(1)(c) of the Working Tax Credit Regulations” there shall be substituted “£11·90”;
(ii)for sub-paragraph (3)(c) of the substituted paragraph 16 there shall be substituted the following –
“(c)£11·90.”;
(b)in paragraph 11(b) for “the amount specified for that element in Schedule 2 to those Regulations” there shall be substituted “£11·90”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 24th March 2003.
L.S.
D. A. Baker
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 25th March 2003.
L.S.
D. Thomson
Senior Officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel