{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).\n(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), after the definition of “employment” there shall be inserted the following definition –\n““ERA payment” means a payment made in respect of participation in the Employment Retention and Advancement Scheme for the provision of assistance to individuals to improve their job retention or career advancement (or both) under section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973;”.\n(3) In paragraph 14ZA (carer premium) of Schedule 2 (applicable amounts) –\n(a) sub-paragraph (2) shall be omitted;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (3)(b) “or ceases to be treated as entitled” shall be omitted;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (3A) –\n(i) in head (a) before “the Sunday” there shall be inserted “where sub-paragraph (3)(a) applies,”;\n(ii) head (b) shall be omitted;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (4) –\n(i) head (b) shall be omitted;\n(ii) for head (c) there shall be substituted the following head –\n“(c) in any other case, the person who has been entitled to a carer’s allowance ceased to be entitled to that allowance.”.\n(4) In Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) –\n(a) in paragraph 25 –\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) after “(permitted allowances)” there shall be inserted “or paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002”;\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph –\n“(1A) Any payment, other than a payment to which sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies, made to the claimant in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002.”;\n(b) for paragraph 72 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –\n“72. Any payment made by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to or on behalf of the claimant or his partner relating to a service which is provided to develop or sustain the capacity of the claimant or his partner to live independently in his accommodation.”;\n(c) after paragraph 72 there shall be inserted the following paragraph –\n“73. Any ERA payment.”.\n(5) In Schedule 10 (capital to be disregarded) –\n(a) for paragraph 62 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –\n“62. Any payment made by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive to or on behalf of the claimant or his partner relating to a service which is provided to develop or sustain the capacity of the claimant or his partner to live independently in his accommodation.”;\n(b) after paragraph 62 there shall be added the following paragraphs –\n“63. Any payment made under Article 15A of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.\n64. Any payment made to the claimant in accordance with regulations made under paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002.\n65. Any ERA payment but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of that payment.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.10.2003, see reg. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 459; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 318, S.R. 1989 No. 366, S.R. 1990 No. 346, S.R. 1998 No. 2, S.R. 2002 Nos. 322 and 323 and S.R. 2003 Nos. 154 and 195"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Definition of “employment” was inserted by regulation 2(b) of S.R. 1988 No. 318"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1973 c. 50 as amended by the Employment Act 1988 (c. 19), the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c. 19) and the Employment Act 1989 (c. 38)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph 14ZA was inserted by regulation 6(d) of S.R. 1990 No. 346"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (3) was substituted by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 2002 No. 322 and amended by paragraph 1(g) of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 323"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (3A) was substituted by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 2002 No. 322 and amended by paragraph 1(g) of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 323"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (4) was amended by regulation 2(b) of S.R. 2002 No. 322 and paragraph 1(g) of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 323"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (1) was substituted by regulation 4 of S.R. 1989 No. 366 and is prospectively amended by paragraph 23(c) of Schedule 1 to S.R. 2003 No. 195 and paragraph (b) was substituted by regulation 2(8)(a) of S.R. 1998 No. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "2002 c. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Paragraph 72 was added by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2003 No. 154"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "Paragraph 62 was added by regulation 2(3)(b) of S.R. 2003 No. 154"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14); Article 15A was inserted by Article 3 of the Personal Social Services (Direct Payments) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1923 (N.I. 19))"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:01:08.853377+00:00"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}