14.—(1) Section 139 of the Administration Act shall not apply to any award of income support in force in favour of a person where there is applicable to that person—
(a)any amount determined in accordance with regulation 17(2) to (7) of the Income Support Regulations(1);
(b)any protected sum determined in accordance with Schedule 3A or 3B to those Regulations(2); or
(c)any transitional addition, personal expenses addition or special transitional addition applicable under Part II of the Income Support (Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(3).
(2) Where section 139 of the Administration Act does not apply to an award of income support by virtue of paragraph (1), a decision under Article 11 may be made in respect of that award for the sole purpose of giving effect to any change made by an order under section 132 of the Administration Act(4).
(3) Section 139A of the Administration Act(5) shall not apply to any award of a jobseeker’s allowance in force in favour of a person where there is applicable to that person any amount determined in accordance with regulation 87 of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations.
(4) Where section 139A of the Administration Act does not apply to an award of a jobseeker’s allowance by virtue of paragraph (3), a decision under Article 11 may be made in respect of that award for the sole purpose of giving effect to any change made by an order under section 132 of the Administration Act.
Paragraphs (2) to (7) were added by regulation 2 of S.R. 1988 No. 193 and amended by S.R. 1989 No. 395 and S.R. 1993 No. 149
Schedules 3A and 3B were inserted by Schedule 2 to S.R. 1988 No. 318 and Schedule 1 to S.R. 1989 No. 139 respectively
S.R. 1987 No. 460; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 132
Section 132 was amended by paragraph 41 of Schedule 7 to the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 (c. 49)
Section 139A was inserted by Article 26 of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15))