Regulation 3 Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

In so far as they relate to child benefit, the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 2 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Act), for paragraph (3A) substitute—

“(3A)

For the purposes of entitlement to child benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act^f2, a person—

(a)

who is lawfully working in Northern Ireland; and

(b)

who is a national of a State with which the United Kingdom has concluded an agreement which replaces, in whole or in part, an agreement under Article 217 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which makes provision for receipt of family allowances for members of their family who are legally resident in the United Kingdom,

is a person to whom section 115 of the Act^f3 does not apply.”.