- Abbeyfield Home
means an establishment run by the Abbeyfield Society including any body corporate or incorporate which is affiliated to that Society;
- academic year
means the period of 12 months beginning on 1st January, 1st April, 1st July or 1st September according to whether the course in question begins in the winter, the spring, the summer or the autumn respectively but if students are required to begin attending the course during August or September and to continue attending through the autumn, the academic year of the course is to be considered to begin in the autumn rather than the summer;
- access funds
means— (a) grants made under Article 30 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993, or grants, loans or other payments made under Article 5 of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 in each case being grants, or grants, loans or other payments, as the case may be, made for the purpose of assisting students in financial difficulties;
- accommodation
means accommodation provided or arranged by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety under Article 15 or 36 of the Health and Personal Social Services Order in a home owned or managed by a Health and Social Services Board or a Health and Social Services trust where the accommodation is provided for a person whose stay in that accommodation has become other than temporary;
- adoption leave
means a period of absence from work on ordinary or additional adoption leave under Article 107A or 107B of the Employment Rights Order;
- adult disability payment
has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022;
- advanced education
means education for the purposes of— (a) a course in preparation for a degree, a diploma of higher education, a higher national diploma, a higher national diploma of the Business and Technology Education Council or Qualifications Scotland, or a teaching qualification;
- aircraft worker
means a person who is, or has been, employed under a contract of service either as a pilot, commander, navigator or other member of the crew of any aircraft, or in any other capacity on board any aircraft where— (a) the employment in that other capacity is for the purposes of the aircraft or its crew or of any passengers or cargo or mail carried on that aircraft;
- allowance or advantage
means any allowance or advantage under the Act or the Contributions and Benefits Act for which entitlement is dependent on limited capability for work;
- appellate authority
means an appeal tribunal, a Commissioner (as defined in section 167 of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) 1992), the Court of Appeal or the Supreme Court.
- appropriately qualified
means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.
- approved blood scheme
means a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State, or trust established with funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the purpose of providing compensation in respect of a person having been infected from contaminated blood products;
- armed forces independence payment
means armed forces independence payment under the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2011;
- assessment period
means— (a) in a case where a relevant payment is made quarterly, the period beginning with the benefit week which includes the day on which the claimant abandoned, or was dismissed from, the course and ending with the benefit week which includes the last day of the last quarter for which an instalment of the relevant payment was payable to that claimant;
- attendance allowance
means— (a) an attendance allowance under section 64 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
- authority
has the meaning given by Article 2 of the Children Order;
- basic rate
has the meaning given by section 989 of the Income Tax Act 2007;
- benefit week
means a period of 7 days ending on such day as the Department may direct but for the purposes of calculating any payment of income “benefit week” means the period of 7 days ending on the day before the first day of the first benefit week following the date of claim or the last day on which an employment and support allowance is paid if it is in payment for less than a week;
- blind or severely sight impaired
means certified as blind or severely sight impaired by a consultant ophthalmologist and a person who has ceased to be certified as blind or severely sight impaired where that person’s eyesight has been regained is, nevertheless, to be treated as blind or severely sight impaired for a period of 28 weeks following the date on which the person ceased to be so certified;
- board and lodging
means— (a) accommodation provided to a person or, if the person is a member of a family, to that person or any other member of that person’s family, for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which both are cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of that person’s family) and are consumed in that accommodation or associated premises;
- care component
means—
- carer support payment
means the carer support payment component of carer support given in accordance with the Carer’s Assistance (Carer Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023;
- chargeable income
means—
- child
means a person under the age of 16;
- child abuse payment
means a payment from a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing compensation in respect of historic institutional child abuse in the United Kingdom;
- child disability payment
has the meaning given in the DACYP Regulations (see regulation 2 of those Regulations);
- child maintenance
means any payment towards the maintenance of a child or young person, including any payment made voluntarily and payments made under— (a) the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;
- child support maintenance
means such periodical payments as are referred to in Article 4(6) of the 1991 Order and includes any payments made by the Department in lieu of such payments;
- child tax credit
means a child tax credit under section 8 of the Tax Credits Act;
- claimant
includes a young claimant;
- close relative
means a parent, parent-in-law, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, step-parent, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, or if any of the preceding persons is one member of a couple, the other member of that couple;
- communal area
means any area (other than rooms) of common access (including halls and passageways) and rooms of common use in sheltered accommodation.
- compensation
means any payment made in respect of, or on the termination of, employment in a case where a claimant has not received or received only part of a payment in lieu of notice due or which would have been due to the claimant had that claimant not waived the right to receive it, other than— (a) any payment specified in paragraph (1)(a) to (i) or (l);
- compliance condition
means— (a) where the failure by the claimant relates to a requirement to take part in a work-focused interview, either— (a) taking part in a work-focused interview, or (b) making an agreement with the Department to take part in a work-focused interview at an agreed date;
- concessionary payment
means a payment made under arrangements made by the Department with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel which is charged... to a Departmental Expenditure Vote to which payments of benefit under the benefit Acts are charged;
- confinement
has the meaning given by section 167(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
- contribution
means— (a) any contribution in respect of the income of a student or any person which the Department, the Scottish Ministers or an education authority takes into account in ascertaining the amount of a student’s grant or student loan;
- conversion decision
has the meaning given in regulation 5(2)(a) of the Employment and Support Allowance (Transitional Provisions and Housing Benefit) (Existing Awards) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010;
- councillor
means a member of a district council;
- couple
means— (a) two people who are married to, or civil partners of, each other and are members of the same household, or (b) two people who are not married to, or civil partners of, each other but are living together as if spouses of each other;
- course of advanced education
means— (a) a course leading to a postgraduate degree or comparable qualification, a first degree or comparable qualification, a diploma of higher education or a higher national diploma;
- court
means any court in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man or in any place to which the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act 1884 applies or any naval court-martial, army court-martial or air force court-martial within the meaning of the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act 1968 or the Courts-Martial Appeal Court;
- covenant income
means the income payable to a student under a Deed of Covenant by a person whose income is, or is likely to be, taken into account in assessing the student’s grant or award;
- current failure
means a failure which may lead to a reduction under this regulation in relation to which the Department has not yet determined whether the amount of the employment and support allowance payable to the claimant is to be reduced in accordance with this regulation.
- daily living component
means the daily living component of personal independence payment under Article 83 of the 2015 Order;
- day of recovery
means a day on which a claimant is recovering from any of the forms of treatment listed in paragraph (1) and the Department is satisfied that the claimant should be treated as having limited capability for work on that day.
- dependent child
means any child or qualifying young person who is treated as the responsibility of the claimant or the claimant’s partner, where that child or young person is a member of the claimant’s household;
- descriptor
means, in relation to an activity specified in column (1) of Schedule 2, a descriptor in column (2) of that Schedule which describes a person’s ability to perform that activity;
- diagnosed person
means a person who has been diagnosed as suffering from, or who, after that person’s death, has been diagnosed as having suffered from, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease;
- disability living allowance
means a disability living allowance under section 71 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
- doctor
means a registered medical practitioner, or in the case of a medical practitioner practising outside the United Kingdom of whom the Department may request a medical opinion, a person registered or recognised as such in the country in which the person undertakes medical practice;
- dwelling
means any residential accommodation, whether or not consisting of the whole or part of a building and whether or not comprising separate and self-contained premises;
- dwelling occupied as the home
means the dwelling together with any garage, garden ad outbuildings normally occupied by the claimant as the claimant’s home, including any premises part thereof not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately together with— (a) any agricultural land adjoining that dwelling;
- earned income
has the meaning given in regulation 51 of the Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016.
- earnings
means, in the case of employment as an employed earner, any remuneration or profit derived from that employment and includes—
- education
means a course of study to which paragraph (2) applies which is being undertaken at an educational establishment.
- education authority
means a government department, an education and library board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries Order, a local education authority as defined in section 212(1) of the Education Act 2002, an education authority as defined in section 123 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, any body which is a research council for the purposes of the Science and Technology Act 1965 or any analogous government department, authority, board or body, of the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or any other country outside the United Kingdom;
- employed earner
means a person who is gainfully employed in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland either under a contract of service or in an office (including elective office) with general earnings;
- employment
includes any trade, business, profession, office or vocation and “employed” has a corresponding meaning;
- extended period of sickness
means a period in which the claimant was—
- failure determination
has the meaning given by regulation 63(1);
- family
means— (a) a couple;
- family member
has the same meaning given in regulation 7(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016, except that regulation 7(4) of those Regulations does not apply for the purposes of paragraph (3B) and (4)(zd) of this regulation;
- Financial Assistance Scheme payment
means a payment made under the Financial Assistance Scheme Regulations 2005.
- first year of training
means a period of one year beginning with and including a person’s first day of training. • “full-time student” has the meaning given by regulation 131;
- full-time
includes part-time where the person’s disability prevents attendance at a full-time course;
- full-time student
has the meaning given by regulation 131;
- grant
(except in the definition of “access funds”) means any kind of educational grant or award and includes any scholarship, studentship, exhibition, allowance or bursary but does not include a payment from access funds or any payment to which paragraph 13 of Schedule 8 or paragraph 48 of Schedule 9 applies;
- grant income
means— (a) any income by way of a grant;
- Grenfell Tower payment
means a payment made for the purpose of providing compensation or support in respect of the fire on 14th June 2017 at Grenfell Tower;
- guaranteed income payment
means a payment made under Article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005;
- hardship payment
means an income-related employment and support allowance payable at a reduced rate in accordance with the provisions of regulation 64D;
- Health and Social Services Board
means a body established under Article 16 of the Health and Personal Social Services Order;
- Health and Social Services Trust
means a Trust established under Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, by which functions are exercisable by virtue of an authorisation for the time being in operation under Article 3(1) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1994;
- health care professional
means— (a) a registered medical practitioner;
- hospital or similar institution
means any place (not being a prison, a young offenders centre, a juvenile justice centre or secure accommodation in a children’s home and not being at or in any such place) in which persons suffering from mental disorder are or may be received for care or treatment;
- housing association
has the meaning given by Article 3 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992;
- housing benefit expenditure
means expenditure in respect of which housing benefit is payable as specified in regulation 13(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations but does not include any such expenditure in respect of which an additional amount is applicable under regulation 67(1)(c) or 68(1)(d) (housing costs);
- housing costs
means those costs to which sub-paragraph (1) refers;
- income
includes capital treated as income under regulation 105 and income which a claimant is treated as possessing under regulations 106 to 109 (notional income).
- income which consists of earnings
includes income which a claimant is treated as possessing under regulation 108(2) and (3).
- income-related benefit
means any of the benefits listed in section 122(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
- independent hospital
has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;
- last day of the course
means the last day of the final academic term of the course in which the student is enrolled;
- liable relative
means— (a) a spouse, former spouse, civil partner or former civil partner of a claimant or of a member of the claimant’s family;
- limited capability for work assessment
means the assessment of whether a person has limited capability for work set out in regulation 19(2) and Schedule 2;
- linking term
means a period of 104 weeks from the first day immediately following the last day in a period of limited capability for work;
- loan payments
has the meaning given in the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations.
- Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations
means the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017;
- local welfare provision
means occasional financial or other assistance given by a Northern Ireland Department, or a person authorised to exercise any function of, or provide a service to, it, to or in respect of individuals for the purpose of— (a) meeting, or helping to meet, an immediate short term need— (a) arising out of an exceptional event, or exceptional circumstances;
- main phase employment and support allowance
means an employment and support allowance where the calculation of the amount payable in respect of the claimant includes a component under section 2(1)(b) or 4(2)(b) of the Act or the claimant is a member of the work-related activity group;
- maintenance assessment
has the meaning given by Article 2 of the 1991 Order as it has effect apart from the 2000 Act;
- maintenance calculation
has the meaning given by Article 2 of the 1991 Order as amended by the 2000 Act.
- mariner
means a person who is or has been in employment under a contract of service either as a master or member of the crew of any ship or vessel, or in any other capacity on board any ship or vessel where— (a) the employment in that other capacity is for the purposes of that ship or vessel or her crew or any passengers or cargo or mail carried by the ship or vessel;
- medical evidence
means— or such part of such evidence as constitutes the most reliable evidence available in the circumstances.
- medical treatment
means medical, surgical or rehabilitative treatment (including any course or diet or other regimen), and references to a person receiving or submitting to medical treatment are to be construed accordingly;
- medically approved
means certified by a medical practitioner;
- member of the work-related activity group
means a person who has or is treated as having limited capability for work under Part 5 of these Regulations other than by virtue of regulation 30 of these Regulations;
- miscarriage of justice compensation payment
means— (a) a payment made under section 133(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988;
- mobility supplement
means any supplement under Article 20 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces Etc.
- modular course
means a course of study which consists of 2 or more modules, the successful completion of a specified number of which is required before a person is considered by the educational establishment to have completed the course.
- money purchase benefits
has the meaning given by section 176(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993.
- most recent past period of limited capability for work
means the period of limited capability for work which most recently precedes the period in respect of which the current claim is made, including any period of which that previous period is treated as a continuation by virtue of regulation 145(1) (linking rules);
- national minimum wage
means the rate of the national minimum wage specified in regulation 11 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (rate of the national minimum wage);
- net earnings
means such earnings as are calculated in accordance with regulation 96;
- net profit
means such profit as is calculated in accordance with regulation 98;
- new style ESA
means an allowance under Part 1 of the Act as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 12, to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 that remove references to an income-related allowance;
- non-dependant
has the meaning given by regulation 71;
- non-dependant deduction
means a deduction that is to be made under regulation 67(1)(c) (prescribed amounts) and paragraph 19 of Schedule 6 (housing costs);
- nursing home
has the meaning given by Article 11 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;
- occupational pension
means any pension or other periodical payment under an occupational pension scheme but does not include any discretionary payment out of a fund established for relieving hardship in particular cases;
- occupational pension scheme
has the meaning given by section 1 of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993 • “ordinary clothing or footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities;
- ordinary clothing and footwear
means clothing and footwear for normal daily use but does not include school uniforms;
- ordinary clothing or footwear
means clothing or footwear for normal daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities;
- parental bereavement leave
means leave under Article 112EA of the Employment Rights Order;
- part-time employment
means, if the claimant were entitled to income support, employment in which the claimant is not to be treated as engaged in remunerative work under regulation 5 or 6(1) and (4) of the Income Support Regulations (persons treated, or not treated, as engaged in remunerative work).
- part-week
means an entitlement to an employment and support allowance in respect of any period of less than a week;
- partner
means where a claimant— (a) is a member of a couple, the other member of that couple;
- partner of a person subject to immigration control
means a person— (a) who is not subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act;
- passenger
means any person carried on a ship except— (a) a person employed or engaged in any capacity on board the ship on the business of the ship;
- paternity leave
means a period of absence from work on... paternity leave by virtue of Article 112A or 112B of the Employment Rights Order...;
- patient
has the meaning given by paragraph 5(13) and “prisoner” has the meaning given by regulation 69(2) (special cases);
- pay period
means the period in respect of which a claimant is, or expects to be, normally paid by the claimant’s employer, being a week, a fortnight, 4 weeks, a month or other shorter or longer period as the case may be;
- payment
includes a part of a payment;
- penalty
means a sentence of imprisonment or detention under Article 45(1) or (2) of the Criminal Justice (Children) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998;
- pension age disability payment
has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Older People (Scotland) Regulations 2024;
- pension fund holder
means in relation to a personal pension scheme or an occupational pension scheme, the trustees, managers or scheme administrators, as the case may be, of the scheme concerned;
- pensionable age
has the meaning given by the rules in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;
- period of experience
means a period of work experience which forms part of a sandwich course;
- period of limited capability for work
means a period throughout which a person has, or is treated as having, limited capability for work.
- period of study
means the period beginning with the date on which a person starts attending or undertaking a course of study and ending with the last day of the course or such earlier date (if any) as that person finally abandons it or is dismissed from it;
- periodical payment
means— (a) a payment which is made or is due to be made at regular intervals...;
- permanent health insurance payment
means any periodical payment arranged by an employer under an insurance policy providing benefits in connection with physical or mental illness or disability, in relation to a former employee on the termination of that person’s employment.
- Person from abroad
means, subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a claimant who is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland.
- person in hardship
means a person who satisfies regulation 158 but only for a period not exceeding 6 weeks;
- person serving a sentence of imprisonment detained in hospital
means a person who— (a) is being detained under Article 53 of Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order1986 (removal to hospital of persons serving sentences of imprisonment etc.), and (b) in any case where there is in relation to that person a release date within the meaning of Article 56(3) of that Order (further provisions as to prisoners under sentence), is being detained on or before the day which the Secretary of State certifies to be that release date;
- personal independence payment
means personal independence payment under Part 5 of the 2015 Order;
- personal pension scheme
means— (a) a personal pension scheme as defined by section 1 of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993;
- policy of life insurance
means any instrument by which the payment of money is assured on death (except death by accident only) or the happening of any contingency dependent on human life, or any instrument evidencing a contract which is subject to payment of premiums for a term dependent on human life;
- polygamous marriage
means any marriage entered into under a law which permits polygamy where— (a) either party has for the time being any spouse additional to the other party;
- Post Office compensation payment
means a payment made by the Post Office or the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing compensation or support which is— (a) in connection with the failings of the Horizon system, or (b) otherwise payable following the judgment in Bates and Others v Post Office Limited ((No. 3) “Common Issues”) • “public authority” has the meaning given in section 75(3) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998;
- postgraduate loan
means a loan to a student undertaking a postgraduate master’s degree course or a postgraduate doctoral degree course pursuant to regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998;
- prisoner
has the meaning given by regulation 69(2) (special cases);
- public authority
has the meaning given in section 75(3) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998;
- qualifying age for state pension credit
means— (a) in the case of a woman, pensionable age;
- qualifying person
means a person in respect of whom a Grenfell Tower payment, a child abuse payment, a Windrush payment, a Post Office compensation payment, a vaccine damage payment, an LGBT Financial Recognition Scheme payment or a miscarriage of justice compensation payment has been made or payment has been made from the Fund, the Eileen Trust, MFET Limited, the Skipton Fund, the Caxton Foundation, the Infected Blood Payment Scheme for Northern Ireland, the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme, an approved blood scheme, the London Emergencies Trust, the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund;, the National Emergencies Trust, the Victims of Overseas Terrorism Compensation Scheme or the London Bombings Relief Charitable Fund;
- qualifying remunerative work
has the meaning given by Part 1 of the Tax Credits Act;
- qualifying young person
has the meaning given by section 138(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
- quarter
has the meaning given by regulation 104(6) (calculation of income other than earnings);
- relative
means a close relative, grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece;
- relevant decision
means—
- relevant disease
means an infectious disease to which—
- relevant enactment
means the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955, the Naval Discipline Act 1957, the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, the Health and Personal Social Services Order, the Family Law Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1977, the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, the Domestic Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 and the Children Order.
- relevant payment
means either a student loan or an amount intended for the maintenance of dependants referred to in regulation 132(6) (calculation of grant income) or both.
- relevant person of Northern Ireland
has the meaning given in Annex 1 of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971.
- relevant rights
means, in relation to a recovery order, the right to bring any proceedings, take any steps or do any other thing under or in relation to the order.
- relevant subsequent week
means the benefit week or part-week which includes the day on which the further claim or, if more than one further claim has been made, the last such claim was made.
- relevant trust
means a trust established out of funds provided by the Secretary of State in respect of persons who suffered, or who are suffering, from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for the benefit of persons eligible for payments in accordance with its provisions;
- relevant week
means the period of 7 days determined in accordance with regulation 166.
- remunerative work
means work in which the claimant’s partner is engaged or, where the partner’s hours of work fluctuate, the partner is engaged on average, for not less than 24 hours a week, being work for which payment is made or which is done in expectation of payment.
- repairs and improvements
means any of the following measures undertaken with a view to maintaining the fitness of the dwelling for human habitation or, where the dwelling forms part of a building, any part of a building containing that dwelling—
- residential accommodation
means accommodation which is a residential care home, a nursing home, an Abbeyfield Home or an independent hospital;
- residential care home
has the meaning given by Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;
- resources
has the meaning given by section 176(1) of the Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993.
- sandwich course
has the meaning given by regulation 2(8) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007, regulation 2(9) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2008 or regulation 4(2) of the Education (Student Loans) (Scotland) Regulations 2007;
- Scottish adult disability living allowance
has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025;
- Scottish basic rate
means the rate of income tax of that name calculated in accordance with section 6A of the Income Tax Act 2007;
- Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme
means the scheme of that name administered by the Common Services Agency (constituted by section 10 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978);
- secondary education
means a course of education below a course of advanced education— (a) by attendance at an establishment recognised by the Department as being, or as comparable to, a university, college or school;
- self-employed earner
means a person who is gainfully employed in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland otherwise than in employed earner’s employment (whether or not he is also employed in such employment);
- self-employment route
means assistance in pursuing self-employed earner’s employment whilst participating in a programme provided or other arrangements made under section 1 of the Employment and Training Act;
- shared parental leave
means leave under Article 107E or 107G of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;
- single claimant
means a claimant who neither has a partner nor is a lone parent or a person who has no partner and who is responsible for and a member of the same household as a young person;
- special account
means, where a claimant is carrying on a commercial activity in respect of which assistance is received under the self-employment route, the account into which the gross receipts from that activity are payable during the period in respect of which such assistance is received.
- specified loan or award
means—
- sports award
means an award made by one of the Sports Councils named in section 23(2) of the National Lottery etc.
- standard maintenance grant
means— (a) except where paragraph (b) or (c) applies, in the case of a student attending or undertaking a course of study at the University of London or an establishment within the area comprising the City of London and the Metropolitan Police District, the amount specified for the time being in paragraph 2(2)(a) of Schedule 6 to the Students Awards Regulations for such a student;
- state pension credit
means a state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002;
- statutory shared parental pay period
means the weeks in respect of which statutory shared parental pay is payable to a person under section 167ZZ2(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.
- student
means a person, other than a person in receipt of a training allowance, who is attending or undertaking a course of study at an educational establishment;
- student loan
means a loan towards a student’s maintenance pursuant to any regulations made under Article 3 of the Education (Student Support) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 or sections 73(f), 73B and 74 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 and is to include, in Scotland, amounts paid under regulation 4(1)(c) of the Students’ Allowances (Scotland) Regulations 2007.
- tax year
means a period beginning with 6th April in one year and ending with 5th April in the next;
- the 1991 Order
means the Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;
- the 2015 Order
means the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015;
- the Act
means the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007;
- the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme
means the scheme established under section 1(2) of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Act 2004;
- the award of an income-related allowance
means—
- the benefit Acts
means the Contributions and Benefits Act, the Jobseekers Order, Part 1 of the Act and the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015;
- the care component
means the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.
- the Caxton Foundation
means the charitable trust of that name established on 28th March 2011, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from hepatitis C and other persons eligible for payment in accordance with its provisions;
- the Children Order
means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;
- the DACYP Regulations
means the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021;
- the Decisions and Appeals Regulations
means the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999;
- the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act
means the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1945;
- the Dispensing Instruments
means the Order in Council of 19th December 1881, the Royal Warrant of 27th October 1884 and the Order by His Majesty of 14th January 1922 (exceptional grants of pay, non-effective pay and allowances).
- the Education and Libraries Order
means the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986;
- the Eileen Trust
means the charitable trust of that name established on 29th March 1993 out of funds provided by the Secretary of State for the benefit of persons eligible for payment in accordance with its provisions;
- the Employment and Training Act
means the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950;
- the Employment Rights Order
means the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;
- the first contribution condition
means the condition set out in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act;