# The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998, Regulation 5: Housing Benefit, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance: Amendments with respect to persons in detention

Extent: N.I.

(1) For the words referred to in each of the provisions specified in paragraph (2) there shall be substituted “who is detained in hospital”—
(2) The words referred to and the provisions specified in this paragraph are—
(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(b) in the Income Support Regulations—
(i) in regulation 21(3) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner” for “whose detention is”;
(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(c) in the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations in regulation 85(4) (special cases) in the definition of “prisoner” for “whose detention is”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/81/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5
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