Regulation 8 Amendment of regulation 18A

In regulation 18A (permitted withdrawals from an account where the child is terminally ill)^f1, in paragraph (2)(b)(ii) and (6)(b) after “section 72(5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (the care component)”, insert “and, for this purpose, section 66(2)(a)^f2 of that Act (attendance allowance for the “terminally ill”) is deemed to apply as if for “6 months” there were substituted “12 months.””.

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f1: Regulation 18A was added by S.I. 2004/2676. Paragraphs (2) and (6) were amended by section 67(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30), section 52 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5), S.R. 1999/494, S.I. 1999/3147, 2014/649, 2021/886 and 2022/332.
f2: 1992 c. 7. Section 66(2)(a) was amended for certain purposes (but not for the purposes of regulation 18A of S.I. 2004/1450) by the Social Security (Terminal Illness) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 7).