The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015

The Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)

6.—(1) Section 13A (payment out of benefit of sums in respect of mortgage interest) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “entitled, to” insert “universal credit,”;

(b) in paragraph (b), after “determining” insert “the maximum amount for the purposes of universal credit or”;

(c) in the words after paragraph (b), after “whose” insert “maximum amount for the purposes of universal credit or”.

(3) In subsection (4)—

(a) in the definition of “qualifying associate”—

(i) before “falls” insert “or universal credit”;

(ii) before “, as the case may be,” insert “or Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015”;

(b) in the definition of “relevant benefits”, before paragraph (a) insert—

“(za) universal credit;”.