The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (revoked) No. 153

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2015 No. 153

Social Security

The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Made

12th March 2015

Coming into operation

6th April 2015

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 70(8) and 171(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 M1 , and now vested in it M2 .

Marginal Citations

M1 1992 c.7; section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

M2 See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2015.

Amendment of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations N.I.

2.  In regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 M3 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed) for “£102” substitute “ £110 ”.

Marginal Citations

M3 S.R. 1976 No. 99; regulation 8(1) was amended by regulation 2(7)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 521, regulation 2 of S.R. 2001 No. 117, paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 323 and regulation 2 of S.R. 2014 No. 121

Revocation N.I.

3.  The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 M4 are revoked.

Marginal Citations

M4 S.R. 2014 No. 121

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 12th March 2015

L.S.

Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 8(1) the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 to increase, from £102 to £110, the amount of weekly earnings that a person can receive before being treated as gainfully employed for the purposes of entitlement to carer's allowance.

Regulation 3 makes a consequential revocation.

These Regulations 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 Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.