The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Persons of prescribed description

17.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 133(1) of the Act as it applies to housing benefit (definition of family(1)) is a person who falls within the definition of qualifying young person in section 138 of the Act(2) (child and qualifying young person), and in these Regulations such a person is referred to as a “young person”.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who is—

(a) on income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance; or

(b) a person to whom section 6 of the Children (Leaving Care) Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(3) (exclusion from benefits) applies.

(3) A person of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 133(1) of the Act as it applies to housing benefit (definition of family) includes a child or young person in respect of whom section 141A of that Act(4) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under section 141A(1) of that Act.

(1)

The definition of “family” was amended by paragraph 99(2) of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)

(2)

Section 138 was substituted by section 2(2) of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6); see also regulation 2 of S.I. 2006/223

(3)

2002 c. 11 (N.I.)

(4)

Section 141A was inserted by section 55 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21) and amended by paragraph 101 of Schedule 24 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and paragraph 38 of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 2005