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Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations

2.—(1) The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (9).

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) the definition of “residential allowance”(2) shall be omitted.

(3) In regulation 17(1) (applicable amounts) sub-paragraph (bb)(3) shall be omitted.

(4) In regulation 18(1) (polygamous marriages) sub-paragraph (cc)(4) shall be omitted.

(5) In regulation 21(1B)(5) (special cases) for “paragraph 10A, 10B, 10C or 13” there shall be substituted “paragraph 13(2)”.

(6) In regulation 71 (applicable amounts in urgent cases) –

(a)in paragraph (1) sub-paragraphs (a)(vi)(6) and (c) shall be omitted; and

(b)paragraph (1A)(7) shall be omitted.

(7) In Schedule 2 (applicable amounts) paragraph 2A(8) shall be omitted.

(8) In Schedule 7 (applicable amounts in special cases) –

(a)paragraphs –

(i)10A(9) (single claimants temporarily in accommodation provided by a Health and Social Services Board);

(ii)10B(10) (couples and members of polygamous marriages where one member is or all are temporarily in accommodation provided by a Health and Social Services Board);

(iii)10C(11) (lone parents who are in residential accommodation temporarily), and

(iv)13(1)(12) (persons in residential accommodation) in columns (1) and (2),

shall be omitted.

(9) In Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)

paragraph 15B(13) shall be omitted.

(2)

The definition of “residential allowance” was inserted by regulation 2(2)(d) of S.R. 1993 No. 149

(3)

Sub-paragraph (bb) was inserted by regulation 2(3) of S.R. 1993 No. 149 and amended by regulation 2 of, and paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2003 No. 195

(4)

Sub-paragraph (cc) was inserted by regulation 2(4) of S.R. 1993 No. 149 and amended by regulation 2 of, and paragraph 3(b) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2003 No. 195

(5)

Paragraph (1B) was inserted by regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 6(b) of Part I of the Schedule to, S.R. 2002 No. 132

(6)

Head (vi) was added by regulation 4(16)(a) of S.R. 1993 No. 373

(7)

Paragraph (1A) was inserted by regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 11(e) of Part I of the Schedule to, S.R. 2002 No. 132

(8)

Paragraph 2A was inserted by regulation 2(6) of S.R. 1993 No. 149 and amended by regulation 4(4) of S.R. 1993 No. 165, regulation 2(2)(a) of S.R. 1993 No. 235, regulation 4(17)(b) of S.R. 1993 No. 373, paragraph 1(j) of Schedule 12 to, S.R. 1994 No. 65, regulation 7(3)(a) of S.R. 1997 No. 412, Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, S.R. 2002 No. 99 and regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 13 of Part I of the Schedule to, S.R. 2002 No. 132

(9)

Paragraph 10A was inserted by regulation 34(b) of S.R. 1988 No. 146 and amended by regulation 8 of, and paragraph 13(a) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 1989 No. 139, Part 1 of Schedule 4 to, S.R. 2002 No. 99 and regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 15(c) of Part I of the Schedule to, S.R. 2002 No. 132

(10)

Paragraph 10B was inserted by regulation 34(b) of S.R. 1988 No. 146 and amended by regulation 8 of, and paragraph 13(a) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 1989 No. 139, Part 1 of Schedule 4 to, S.R. 2002 No. 99 and regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 15(d) of Part I of the Schedule to, S.R. 2002 No. 132

(11)

Paragraph 10C was inserted by regulation 19(c) of S.R. 1988 No. 431 and amended by regulation 5(5)(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 288, Part 1 of Schedule 4 to, S.R. 2002 No. 99 and regulation 2 of, and paragraph 21(e) and (f) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2003 No. 195

(12)

Paragraph 13 was amended by regulation 22(d) of S.R. 1988 No. 318, regulation 19(k)(i) and (ii) of S.R. 1990 No. 131, regulation 1(6)(a)(iv) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 1993 No. 149, Part 1 of Schedule 4 to, S.R. 2002 No. 99 and regulation 2 of, and paragraph 21(g) of Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2003 No. 195

(13)

Paragraph 15B was inserted by regulation 2 of S.R. 1996 No. 78 and amended by 2(2)(a)(i)(aa) and (bb) and 2(2)(a)(ii) and (iii) of S.R. 1997 No. 22 and regulation 2(1) of, and paragraph 17(d) of Part I of the Schedule to, S.R. 2002 No. 132