Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (S.R. 2000 No. 71) (the “Immigration and Asylum Regulations”) to reflect the United Kingdom’s transition to trade and partnership agreements, which replace association agreements concluded with third countries under Article 217 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, as a consequence of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

Regulation 2 amends Part II of the Schedule to the Immigration and Asylum Regulations so that a person who is lawfully working in Northern Ireland and who is a national of a State with which the United Kingdom has concluded an agreement which replaces an EU Agreement providing for equal treatment in the field of social security, and where that EU Agreement has ceased to apply in whole or in part to, and in, the United Kingdom, is not treated as a person subject to immigration control for the purposes of benefits specified in regulation 2(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Regulations. “EU Agreement” is defined as an agreement concluded by the European Union under Article 217 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.