{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/176",
  "legislation_title": "The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 are amended as follows—\n(a) in regulation 1(2)—\n(i) in the definition of “claimant”, after “universal credit” insert “or who is in receipt of owner-occupier loan payments”, and\n(ii) after the definition of “overlap period” insert—\n““owner-occupier loan payments” means loan payments made under the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017;”;\n(b) in regulation 1A(2)—\n(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (d) omit “or”,\n(ii) at the end of sub-paragraph (e) insert “or”, and\n(iii) after sub-paragraph (e) insert—\n“(f) owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d).”,\n(iv) in paragraph (3)—\n(aa) for “(d) or (e)” substitute “(d), (e) or (f)”;\n(bb) at the end of sub-paragraph (e) omit “or”;\n(cc) at the end of sub-paragraph (f) insert “or”;\n(dd) after sub-paragraph (f) insert—\n“(g) where P has been awarded owner-occupier loan payments, P’s applicable amount, if P were entitled to a benefit specified in paragraph (2)(b) to (d), would include one or more of the premiums specified in—\n(aa) where P is treated as entitled to income support, paragraphs 9 to 14 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to the General Regulations;\n(bb) where P is treated as entitled to jobseeker’s allowance, paragraphs 10 to 16 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n(cc) where P is treated as entitled to employment and support allowance, paragraphs 5 to 7 of Schedule 4 to the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008.”;\n(ee) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) In paragraph (3), a person being treated as entitled to benefit has the meaning given to it in regulation 2(2)(aa) of the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 7-12 added (5.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/37), regs. 1(3), 2(18)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/176/schedule/5/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:28.382665+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}