Regulation 5 Amendment of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) RegulationsI1C1

At the end of regulation 3 of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987^f1 (claims not required for entitlement to benefit in certain cases) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(h)

in the case of income support where the beneficiary—

(i)

is a person to whom regulation 6(2) of the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (persons not treated as engaged in remunerative work) applies;

(ii)

was in receipt of an income-based jobseeker’s allowance on the day before the day on which he was first engaged in the work referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 6(2) of those Regulations, and

(iii)

would satisfy the conditions of entitlement to income support (apart from the condition of making a claim which would apply in the absence of this paragraph) only by virtue of regulation 6(3) of those Regulations.”.