Contents
1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Capital Disregards Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 16th April 2001.
(2)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2Income support, housing benefit and jobseeker’s allowance: capital disregard#
There shall be added as—
(a)paragraph 60 of Schedule 10 to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (capital to be disregarded);
(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c)paragraph 53 of Schedule 7 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (capital to be disregarded);
the following paragraph—“• Where an ex-gratia payment has been made by the Secretary of State to members of the families of the disappeared, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of that payment.”
3Amendment of the Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) Regulations#
In regulation 7 of the Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (deductions from an award of funeral payment)—
(a)in paragraph (1) for “paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted “paragraphs (2) and (3)”;
(b)after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph—“3 The amount of an ex-gratia payment made by the Secretary of State to members of the familes of the disappeared shall be disregarded from any deduction made under this regulation.”
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