The Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Special cases

85.—(1) In the case of a person to whom any paragraph in column (1) of Schedule 4 (applicable amounts in special cases) applies the amount included in the claimant’s weekly applicable amount in respect of him shall be the amount prescribed in the corresponding paragraph in column (2) of that Schedule but excluding an amount for a child or young person whose capital if calculated in accordance with Part VIII (income and capital) in like manner as for the claimant, would exceed £3,000, but including an amount for a child or young person whose capital falls to be treated as income in accordance with regulation 106(1) (modification in respect of children and young persons).

(2) Except where the amount prescribed in Schedule 4 in respect of a person to whom paragraph (1) applies includes an amount applicable under regulation 83(e) or 84(1)(f) (polygamous marriages) a person to whom paragraph (1) applies shall be treated as not falling within the conditions specified in paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 (severe disability premium).

(3) In Schedule 4, for the purposes of paragraphs 1, 2 and 17 (persons in residential care or nursing homes who become patients), where a person has been a patient for 2 or more distinct periods separated by one or more intervals each not exceeding 28 days, he shall be treated as having been a patient continuously for a period equal in duration to the total of those distinct periods.

(4) In this regulation and Schedule 4—

“person from abroad” means a person, who—

(a)

has a limited leave as defined in section 33(1) of the Immigration Act 1971(1) (hereinafter referred to as “the 1971 Act”) to enter or remain in the United Kingdom which was given in accordance with any provision of the immigration rules (as defined in that section) which refers to there being, or to there needing to be, no recourse to public funds or to there being no charge on public funds during that limited leave; but this sub-paragraph shall not apply to a person who is a national of a Member State, a state which is a signatory to the European Convention on Social and Medical Assistance (done in Paris on 11th December 1953)(2) or a state which is a signatory to the Council of Europe Social Charter (signed in Turin on 18th October 1961)(3), unless, in the case of a national of a state which is a signatory of that European Convention, he has made an application for the conditions of his leave to remain in the United Kingdom to be varied, and that application has not been determined or an appeal from that application is pending under Part II of the 1971 Act (appeals);

(b)

having a limited leave (as defined in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act) to enter or remain in the United Kingdom, has remained without further leave under that Act beyond the time limited by the leave;

(c)

is the subject of a deportation order being an order under section 5(1) of the 1971 Act (deportation) requiring him to leave and prohibiting him from entering the United Kingdom;

(d)

is adjudged by the immigration authorities to be an illegal entrant (as defined in section 33(1) of the 1971 Act) who has not subsequently been given leave under that Act to enter or remain in the United Kingdom;

(e)

has been allowed temporary admission to the United Kingdom by virtue of paragraph 21 of Schedule 2 to the 1971 Act;

(f)

has been allowed temporary admission to the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State outside any provision of the 1971 Act;

(g)

has not had his immigration status determined by the Secretary of State, or

(h)

is a national of a Member State and is required by the Secretary of State to leave the United Kingdom;

“person from abroad” also means a claimant who is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, but for this purpose, no claimant shall be treated as not habitually resident in the United Kingdom who is—

(a)

a worker for the purposes of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1612/68 or (EEC) No. 1251/70 or a person with a right to reside in the United Kingdom pursuant to Council Directive No. 68/360/EEC or No. 73/148/EEC;

(b)

a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951(4), as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967(5), or

(c)

a person who has been granted exceptional leave(6) to remain in the United Kingdom by the Secretary of State;

“patient” means a person (other than a prisoner) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient treatment within the meaning of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(7);

“prisoner” means a person who—

(a)

is detained in custody pending trial or sentence upon conviction or under a sentence imposed by a court, or

(b)

is on temporary release in accordance with the provisions of the Prison (Northern Ireland) Act 1953(8),

other than a person whose detention is under the provisions of the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;

“residential accommodation” means, subject to paragraphs (5) and (6), accommodation provided or arranged by the Department under Article 15 or 36 of the 1972 Order(9) in a home owned or managed by a Health and Social Services Board or an HSS trust where the accommodation is provided for a person whose stay in that accommodation has become other than temporary.

(5) Where a person—

(a) is in, or only temporarily absent from, residential accommodation within the meaning of paragraph (4) and that accommodation subsequently becomes a residential care home, or

(b) on 31st March 1993 was in or was only temporarily absent from accommodation of a kind mentioned in regulation 21(3B) and (3C) of the Income Support Regulations(10) (special cases),

that person shall continue to be treated as being in residential accommodation within the meaning of paragraph (4) if, and for so long as, the Department is under a duty to provide or make arrangements for providing accommodation for that person and, in the case of a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) applies, he remains in the same accommodation.

(6) A person who would, but for this paragraph, be in residential accommodation within the meaning of paragraph (4) shall be treated as not being in residential accommodation where, except where he is a person to whom paragraph (5)(b) applies, he is in accommodation where—

(a) no cooked or prepared food is made available to him in consequence solely of his paying the charge for the accommodation or any other charge which he is required to pay as a condition of occupying the accommodation, or both of those charges, or

(b) such food is actually made available for his consumption on payment of a further charge or charges.

(1)

1971 c. 77, as amended by the British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61), section 39 and Schedule 4

(2)

Cmnd. 9512

(3)

Cmnd. 2643

(4)

Cmnd. 9171

(5)

Cmnd. 3906

(6)

See Home Office evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, Sub-committee on Race Relations and Immigration (SCORRI) 1984-85 Session; 17th December 1984; paragraphs 44 to 47

(7)

S.R. 1975 No. 109; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1987 No. 39

(8)

1953 c. 18 (N.I.)

(9)

S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14); Article 15 was extended by sections 1 and 2 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 and amended by Schedule 5 to the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 1 to the Registered Homes (Northern Ireland) Order 1992. Article 36 was substituted by Article 25 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and amended by paragraph 2(3) to (5) of Schedule 1 to the Registered Homes (Northern Ireland) Order 1992

(10)

Paragraphs (3B) and (3C) were inserted by S.R. 1993 No. 165 and amended by S.R. 1994 No. 65