The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

13.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the amount of any trust payment made to a claimant or a claimant’s partner where one of the partners –

(a) is a diagnosed person;

(b) was a diagnosed person’s partner at the time of the diagnosed person’s death;

(c) is a parent of a diagnosed person, a person acting in place of the diagnosed person’s parents or a person who was so acting at the date of the diagnosed person’s death.

(2) Where –

(a) sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b) applies, it shall apply for the period beginning on and including the date on which the trust payment is made and ending on the date on which the partner dies;

(b) sub-paragraph (1)(c) applies, it shall apply for the period beginning on and including the date on which the trust payment is made and ending 2 years after that date.

(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the amount of any payment by a person to whom a trust payment has been made or of any payment out of the estate of a person to whom a trust payment has been made, which is made to a claimant or a claimant’s partner where one of the partners –

(a) is the diagnosed person;

(b) was a diagnosed person’s partner at the date of the diagnosed person’s death, or

(c) is a parent of a diagnosed person, a person acting in place of the diagnosed person’s parents or a person who was so acting at the date of the diagnosed person’s death.

(4) Where –

(a) sub-paragraph (3)(a) or (b) applies, it shall apply for the period beginning on and including the date on which the trust payment is made and ending on the date on which the partner dies;

(b) sub-paragraph (3)(c) applies, it shall apply for the period beginning on and including the date on which the trust payment is made and ending 2 years after that date.

(5) In this paragraph, a reference to a person –

(a) being the diagnosed person’s partner;

(b) acting in place of the diagnosed person’s parents,

at the date of the diagnosed person’s death shall include a person who would have been such a person or a person who would have been so acting, but for the diagnosed person being in a residential care home or nursing home.

(6) In this paragraph –

“diagnosed person” means a person who has been diagnosed as suffering from, or who, after his death, has been diagnosed as having suffered from, variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease;

“relevant trust” means a trust established out of funds provided by the Secretary of State in respect of persons who suffered, or who are suffering, from variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease for the benefit of persons eligible for payments in accordance with its provisions;

“trust payment” means a payment under a relevant trust.