Article 5 Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987

(1)

The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—

(a)

in the definition of “paternity leave”—

(i)

omit “ordinary”;

(ii)

omit “or on additional paternity leave by virtue of Article 112AA or 112BB of that Order”;

(b)

at the appropriate place there is inserted—

““shared parental leave” means leave under Article 107E or 107G of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;”.

(3)

In regulation 5 (persons treated as engaged in remunerative work), in paragraph 3A for “or adoption leave” substitute “, adoption leave or shared parental leave”.

(4)

In regulation 35 (earnings of employed earners), in paragraph (2)(b) for “or adoption leave” substitute “, adoption leave or shared parental leave”.

(5)

In Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person) in paragraph 14B omit “ordinary” in both places where that word appears.

(6)

In Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—

(a)

in paragraph 4—

(i)

omit “ordinary or additional”;

(ii)

for “or adoption leave” substitute “, adoption leave or shared parental leave”;

(b)

in paragraph 4A—

(i)

omit “ordinary or additional”;

(ii)

for “or statutory adoption pay under Part 12ZB of that Act” substitute “, statutory adoption pay under Part 12ZB of that Act or statutory shared parental pay under Part 12ZC of that Act”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1987 No. 459.