Regulation 17 Amendment of the Social Security (Habitual Residence Amendment) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

In regulation 6 of the Social Security (Habitual Residence Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004^f1 (transitional arrangements and savings)—

(a)

after paragraph (1)(c) add—

“(ca)
to whom sub-paragraph (c) applied, claims an employment and support allowance and it is subsequently determined that he is entitled to that benefit, and this entitlement is linked to a previous period of entitlement by virtue of regulation 145(1) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (linking rules);”;

(b)

in paragraph (2)—

(i)

after sub-paragraph (c) omit “and”, and

(ii)

after sub-paragraph (d) add—

“; and

(e)
regulation 70(2) to (4) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (special cases: supplemental – persons from abroad) does not apply.”; and

(c)

for paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4)
In this regulation—

(a)
“the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008^f2; and

(b)
“specified benefit” means income support, housing benefit, jobseeker’s allowance, state pension credit and employment and support allowance.”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 17 in operation at 31.10.2011, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 2004 No. 197, these Regulations were revoked by regulation 8(1)(d) (but transitional arrangements and savings in regulation 6 continue in operation by virtue of regulation 8(2)(b) of S.R 2006 No. 178
f2: S.R. 2008 No. 280