Regulation 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000

(1)

The Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)—

(a)

in paragraph (1)^f2—

(i)

after “a social fund payment,” insert “or”; and

(ii)

omit “housing benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act^f3”; and

(iii)

omit “, or state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002^f4”;

(b)

in paragraph (1A)^f5—

(i)

after “entitlement to” insert “housing benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act, state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act 2002, or”; and

(ii)

after “universal credit” insert “, as the case may be,”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2000/636 (the principal Regulations).
f2: Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2003/2274, S.I. 2008/1554, S.I. 2013/458.
f3: “The Contributions and Benefits Act” is defined in regulation 1 of the principal Regulations as meaning the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.
f4: 2002 c. 16.
f5: Paragraph (1A) inserted by S.I. 2013/630; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2013/630, S.I. 2020/1505.