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Regulation 68 Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006I1I2

United Kingdom

(1)

The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 M1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 10 (persons from abroad)—

(a)

in paragraph (4)—

(i)

at the end of sub-paragraph (b)(ii) insert “ or ”;

(ii)

omit sub-paragraphs (c) to (e);

(b)

after paragraph (5)(zd) insert—

“(ze)

a frontier worker within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Citizens' Rights (Frontier Workers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020;

(zf)

a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (ze), who has been granted limited leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom by virtue of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971;”;

(c)

after paragraph (7) insert—

“(8)

In this regulation references to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 are to be read with Schedule 4 to the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Regulations 2020.”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

S.R. 2006 No. 405, relevant amending instruments are S.R. 2012 No. 380, S.R 2019 No. 90 and S.R. 2020 No.149.

Commencement

I1

Reg. 68 not in force at made date, see reg. 1

I2

Reg. 68 in force at 31.12.2020, see reg. 1(2) and S.I. 2020/1279, reg. 4(c)