Regulation 5 Amendments to the principal regulations

For regulation 17(9) substitute—

“(9)

The provision of this regulation shall not apply to any of the following:

(a)

any periodical payment of maintenance;

(b)

any sum or sums ordered to paid under Articles 27B(4) or 27C of the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978^f1;

(c)

other than in circumstances which are exceptional having regard in particular to the quantity or value of the items concerned, the assisted person’s clothes or household furniture or the tools or implements of his trade;

(d)

any sum or sums ordered to be paid under Article 7 of the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) (Northern Ireland) Order 1979^f2 or the Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998^f3;

(e)

the first £3,000 of any money or the value of any property recovered by virtue of an order made or deemed to be made under any of the enactments specified in paragraph (9A), or an agreement which has the same effect as such an order; or

(f)

any sum, payment or benefit which, by virtue of any provision of or made under an enactment, cannot be assigned or charged.”.