Contents
- 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
- 2 Amendments consequential on the renaming of family credit as working families' tax credit and of disability working allowance as disabled person’s tax credit
- 3 Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations
- 4 Amendment of Schedule 8 to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations
- 5 Amendment of regulation 2 of the Social Fund (Recovery by Deductions from Benefits) Regulations
- 6 Amendment of regulation 1 of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations
- 7 Revocation and Saving of the Child Support (Compensation for Recipients of Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance) Regulations
- Schedule 1 Provisions conferring powers exercised in making these Regulations
- Schedule 2
- Schedule 2
- Schedule 2
1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security and Child Support (Tax Credits Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 5th October 1999.
(2)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Assembly.
2Amendments consequential on the renaming of family credit as working families' tax credit and of disability working allowance as disabled person’s tax credit#
(1)Subject to paragraph (3), in the provisions mentioned in Part I of Schedule 2, for the words “family credit” wherever they occur, except where they appear in a reference to the title of the Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, there shall be substituted “working families' tax credit”.
(2)Subject to paragraph (3), in the provisions mentioned in Part II of Schedule 2, for the words “disability working allowance” wherever they occur, except where they appear in a reference to the title of the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992, there shall be substituted “disabled person’s tax credit”.
(3)In the provisions mentioned in Part III of Schedule 2—
(a)for the definition of “disability working allowance” there shall be substituted the following definition—“• “disabled person’s tax credit” means a disabled person’s tax credit under section 128 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;”
(b)the following definition shall be inserted in the appropriate place—“• “working families' tax credit” means a working families' tax credit under section 127 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;”
3Amendment of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations#
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4Amendment of Schedule 8 to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations#
In paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 8 to the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (election to have child benefit paid weekly) for “family credit or disability working allowance” there shall be substituted “or payment in accordance with an award of family credit or disability working allowance which was awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999”.
5Amendment of regulation 2 of the Social Fund (Recovery by Deductions from Benefits) Regulations#
In regulation 2 of the Social Fund (Recovery by Deductions from Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (benefits from which an award may be recovered)—
(a)for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“b family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999;”
(b)for paragraph (ba) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—“ba disability working allowance awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999;”
6Amendment of regulation 1 of the Child Support (Maintenance Assessment Procedure) Regulations#
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7Revocation and Saving of the Child Support (Compensation for Recipients of Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance) Regulations#
The Child Support (Compensation for Recipients of Family Credit and Disability Working Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 are revoked except that they shall continue to have effect in the case of an award of family credit or disability working allowance awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999.
Schedule 1 · Provisions conferring powers exercised in making these Regulations
Schedule 2
Part I · Provisions in which the words “family credit” are substituted by “working families' tax credit”
Schedule 2
Part II · Provisions in which the words “disability working allowance” are substituted by “disabled person’s tax credit”
Schedule 2
Part III · Provisions in which the definitions of “working families' tax credit” and “disabled person’s tax credit” are substituted or inserted
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