The Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Citation commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Students and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and, subject to paragraph (2) and (3), shall come into operation on 1st August 2008.

(2) Regulations 2, 4 and 5 shall come into operation—

(a) in the case of a person whose period of study begins on or after 1st August 2008 but before 1st September 2008, on the day the period of study begins; and

(b) in any other case, on 1st September 2008.

(3) Regulation 3 shall come into operation on 25th August 2008.

(4) In these Regulations—

“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1);

“period of study”(2) for the purposes of paragraph (2) has the same meaning as in regulation 61 of the Income Support Regulations.

(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1990 No. 297, S.R. 1999 No. 317, S.R. 2001 No. 278 and S.R. 2007 No. 298

(2)

The definition of “period of study” was amended by regulation 8(b) of S.R. 1991 No. 338 and regulation 2(2)(c) of S.R. 2000 No. 242

(3)

1954 c. 33 (N.I.)