{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Common amendments relating to interpretation",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1) of each of the Housing Benefit Regulations and the Income Support Regulations and regulation 1(2) of each of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations and the State Pension Credit Regulations –\n(a) in the definition of “qualifying person” for “or the Eileen Trust” there shall be substituted “, the Eileen Trust or the Skipton Fund”;\n(b) immediately after the definitions of –\n(i) in the Housing Benefit Regulations, the Income Support Regulations and the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations, “single claimant”, and\n(ii) in the State Pension Credit Regulations, “residential care home”,\nthere shall be inserted the following definition –\n““the Skipton Fund” means the ex-gratia payment scheme administered by the Skipton Fund Limited, incorporated on 25th March 2004, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from hepatitis C and other persons eligible for payment in accordance with the scheme’s provisions;”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 revoked (in so far as it has effect in relation to housing benefit) (20.11.2006) by The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/407), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 (with regs. 2, 6(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 12.5.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “qualifying person” was inserted by regulation 4(2)(b) of S.R. 1992 No. 201 and amended by regulation 4(2)(b) of S.R. 1993 No. 233"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “qualifying person” was inserted by regulation 5(2)(b) of S.R. 1992 No. 201 and amended by regulation 5(2)(b) of S.R. 1993 No. 233"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/213/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:57:40.599928+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}