Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Act 2026

2 Removal of two child limit: NI

(1) In Article 15 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)) (responsibility for children and young persons)—

(a) omit paragraph (1A) (the two child limit), and

(b) in paragraph (4), omit “or (1A)”.

(2) In consequence of the amendments made by subsection (1)—

(a) in Article 10 of the Welfare Reform and Work (Northern Ireland) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/999 (N.I. 1)), omit paragraphs (2), (4) and (5)(a), and

(b) in regulation 25(1) of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. (N.I.) 2016 No. 216), omit “and in respect of whom an amount may be included under Article 15”.

(3) The following provisions of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 were made under the power repealed by subsection (1)(b) (power to provide for exceptions to the two child limit) and are therefore revoked—

(a) regulation 25A;

(b) regulation 25B;

(c) Schedule 12.

(4) The amendments made by this section have effect in relation to assessment periods commencing on or after 6 April 2026, and for this purpose “assessment period” has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015.