{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-9.json",
  "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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 are amended as follows—\n(a) in regulation 2—\n(i) in paragraph (1), after the definition of “order freeing a child for adoption” insert—\n““owner-occupier loan payments” means loan payments under the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017;”,\n(ii) after paragraph (4)(b) insert—\n“(c) a person being treated as entitled to a benefit has the meaning given to it in regulation 2(2)(aa) of the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017.”;\n(c) in regulation 5(2)—\n(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (f) omit “or”,\n(ii) at the end of sub-paragraph (g) insert “or”; and\n(iii) after sub-paragraph (g) add—\n“(h) owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) and (f).”;\n(d) in regulation 7(4)(a)—\n(i) at the end of head (vii) omit “or”,\n(ii) at the end of head (viii) insert “or”, and\n(iii) after head (viii) add—\n“(ix) owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) and (vii).”.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}