# The Income-Related Benefits (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, Regulation 5: Amendment of the Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations


(1) The Income-Related Benefits and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation)—
(a) for paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
“(3) In so far as these Regulations amend provisions relating to housing benefit—
(a) in any case to which paragraph (3A) applies, they shall come into operation on 1st April 1997, and
(b) in any other case, they shall come into operation on 7th April 1997.
(3A) This paragraph applies in any case where—
(a) rent is payable at intervals of one month or any other interval which is not a week or a multiple thereof, or
(b) payments by way of rates are not made together with payments of rent at weekly intervals or multiples thereof.”.
(b) in paragraph (4) for the words from “which is current” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted—
“—
(a) which expires on 6th October 1997, on 7th October 1997;
(b) which expires after 6th October 1997, on the day following the expiration of that award.”.
(3) In regulation 10(3) (transitional provisions) after “8 and 9” there shall be inserted “or regulation 3 or 4 of the Income-Related Benefits (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/152/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/income-related-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-5
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