Contents
1Citation, commencement and interpretation#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments and Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 2nd November 2002 except for regulations 2(2) and 4 which shall come into operation on 1st April 2003.
(2)The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations#
(1)The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
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(3)Regulation 35 (payment to a partner as alternative payee) shall be renumbered paragraph (1) of regulation 35 and after that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph –“2 Where a person is entitled to a winter fuel payment within the meaning of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and –a that person is one of a married or unmarried couple or a member of a polygamous marriage;b the other member of that couple or another member of that marriage (“the other person”) is in receipt of income support or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance; andc both members of the couple or marriage are living together within the meaning of regulation 1(3)(b) of those Regulationsthe Department may pay the winter fuel payment to the other person on behalf of the person entitled to the payment as an alternative to paying the person entitled notwithstanding that the other person has not yet attained the age of 60 in the qualifying week.”
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