1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Income-Related Benefits (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation as follows—
(a)for the purposes of this regulation and regulation 2(1)(a) and (b) and (2) on 15th April 1996, and
(b)for the purposes of regulation 2(1)(c) and (d) and (2) on 16th April 1996.
(2)Regulation 2(1)(a) and (2) shall have effect in relation to any particular claimant at the beginning of the first benefit week to commence for that claimant on or after 15th April 1996 and in this regulation “claimant” and “benefit week” shall have the same meanings as in the Income Support Regulations.
(3)Regulation 2(1)(c) and (d) and (2) shall have effect in relation to any particular claimant—
(a)except where sub-paragraph (b) applies on 16th April 1996, or
(b)where a claimant has an award of disability working allowance or family credit which is current on 16th April 1996, on the day following the expiration of that award.
(4)In these Regulations “the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.
(5)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
2Amendment of capital disregard provisions#
(1)The following provisions shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2)—
(a)Schedule 10 to the Income Support Regulations;
(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)Schedule 3 to the Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, and
(d)Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992.
(2)For paragraph 3 of each of the provisions specified in paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“3 Any sum directly attributable to the proceeds of sale of—a any premises formerly occupied by the claimant as his home, orb any premises which the claimant continues to occupy as his home and which were occupied by him as his home immediately before the compulsory acquisition of those premises from him under any statutory provision,which is to be used for the purchase of other premises or land intended for such occupation within 26 weeks of the date of sale or such longer period as is reasonable in the circumstances to enable the claimant to complete the purchase.”
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