Regulation 5 Amendment of the State Pension Credit RegulationsI1

The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) after the definition of “benefit week” there shall be inserted the following definition—

• ““board and lodging accommodation” means accommodation provided to a person or, if he is a member of a family, to him or any other member of his family, for a charge which is inclusive of—

  1. (a)

     the provision of that accommodation; and

  2. (b)

     at least some cooked or prepared meals which both are cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of his family) and are consumed in that accommodation or associated premises,

  but not accommodation provided by a close relative of his or of his partner, or other than on a commercial basis;.”.

In regulation 15(5)(e) (income for the purposes of the Act) the words “, and for this purpose “board and lodging accommodation” has the same meaning as in paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 4” shall be omitted.

In regulation 17B(2)(a)^f2 (earnings of self-employed earners) for “paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 4” there shall be substituted “regulation 1(2)”.

In paragraph 8 of Schedule 4 (amounts to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings) sub-paragraph (2) shall be omitted.