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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Support (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-support-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations are made in consequence of a defect in the State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (“the 2003 Regulations”). These Regulations will be issued free of charge to all known recipients of the 2003 Regulations.\nThese Regulations amend paragraphs 10 and 11 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (“the Income Support Regulations”) as a consequence of the amendment of paragraph 12(1)(c) of that Schedule by the 2003 Regulations.\nThe amendments made by regulation 2 of these Regulations enable a person to continue to be eligible for a higher pensioner premium or, as the case may be, disability premium where payment of his or his partner’s attendance allowance or disability living allowance has been suspended or abated because the person or his partner is in hospital and provided that other conditions are satisfied (regulation 2(a) and (b)).\nConsequential amendments are also made to paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations as a result of the amendment of sub-paragraph (1) of that paragraph by the 2003 Regulations (regulation 2(c)).\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/413/note",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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