11.—(1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 3(h)(2) (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (i) after “regulation 6(2)” there shall be inserted “or 6(5)”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (ii), after “regulation 6(2)” there shall be inserted “or, as the case may be, regulation 6(5)”;
(c)in sub-paragraph (iii) after “regulation 6(3)” there shall be inserted “or, as the case may be, regulation 6(6)”.
(3) In Schedule 8B(3) (deductions of mortgage interest from benefit and payment to qualifying lenders) in paragraph 3—
(a)in sub-paragraph (1)(4) for “sub-paragraphs (2) to (8)” there shall be substituted “the following provisions of this paragraph”;
(b)after sub-paragraph (8) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(9) In the case of a person to whom regulation 6(5) of the Income Support Regulations (persons not treated as in remunerative work) applies, no part of any relevant benefit shall be paid directly by the Department to a qualifying lender.”.
S.R. 1987 No. 465; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1992 No. 271, S.R. 1995 No. 301, S.R. 1996 No. 354 and S.R. 1999 Nos. 381 and 472
Paragraph (h) was added by regulation 5 of S.R. 1999 No. 381
Schedule 8B was inserted by regulation 5 of S.R. 1992 No. 271
Sub-paragraph (1) was amended by paragraph 3(3)(a) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 1995 No. 301, regulation 2(27)(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 354 and Article 9(14) of S.R. 1999 No. 472