(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.
In particular, regulation 2 requires periodical payments received by virtue of any agreement or court order to make personal injury payments to the claimant to be treated as income. Regulation 3 provides that payments of income received from all trusts whose funds derive from personal injury payments to a claimant, from an annuity purchased with such funds and those received by virtue of any agreement or court order to make personal injury payments to the claimant, are to be disregarded in their entirety when used for items other than everyday living expenses and £20 of such income disregarded when used for such expenses.
In so far as these Regulations are required, for the purposes of regulations 2(a) and 3(1) and (2)(a), to be referred to the Social Security Advisory Committee under section 149(2) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”), after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee, they have not been so referred by virtue of section 150(1)(b) of that Act. Otherwise they make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the 1992 Act, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
These Regulations do not impose any charge on business.