Regulation 9 Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) RegulationsI1

The Social Security Benefit (Computation of Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “couple” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

• ““Crown property” means property held by Her Majesty in right of the Crown or by a government department or which is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, except (in the case of an interest held by Her Majesty in right of the Crown) where the interest is under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners;

• “Crown Estate Commissioners” have the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978;”.

In Schedule 1 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings) for paragraph 6 there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“6

Any payment made by—

(a)

an authority, as defined in Article 2 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, to a person who is caring for a child by virtue of arrangements made under Article 27(2)(a) of that Order or by a voluntary organisation under Article 75(1)(a) of that Order; or

(b)

a training school, within the meaning of section 137 of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, under paragraph 14(2) of Schedule 5 to that Act to a person who is caring for a child and with whom that child lives or is boarded out under paragraph 6, 7 or 8 of Schedule 5 to that Act.”.

In Schedule 2 (child care charges to be deducted in the calculation of earnings) in paragraph 2 in the definition of “relevant child care charges”—