Regulation 5 Amendment of the State Pension Credit RegulationsI1I2
Northern Ireland
The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).
In regulation 15(5) (income for the purposes of the Act) after sub-paragraph (j)f2 there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—
“(k)PPF periodic payments.”.
In Schedule 1 Part 3 (amount applicable for former claimants of income support or income-based jobseeker’s allowance) for paragraph 6(9)(b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—
“(b)any amount by which the appropriate minimum guarantee of a patient is increased on 10th April 2006 by virtue of the substitution of paragraph 2f3 of Schedule 3.”.
In paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (housing costs)—
in sub-paragraph (2) in the definition of “disabled person” for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—
“(a)aged 75 or over;
(aa)who, had he in fact been entitled to income support, would have satisfied the requirements of paragraph 12f4 of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations (additional condition for the higher pensioner and disability premiums); or”; and
in sub-paragraph (3) for “sub-paragraph (2)(a)” there shall be substituted “sub-paragraph (2)(a), (aa) and (b)”.
In paragraph 2(2)(a) of Schedule 3f5 (further provisions in the case of patients) after “that section” there shall be inserted “, and nil is the prescribed additional amount for the purposes of subsection (3)(b)”.
Annotations
Commencement
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Reg. 5(1)(2)(4) in operation at 6.4.2006, see reg. 1(1)
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Footnotes
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S.R. 2003 No. 28; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 2004 No. 394 and S.R. 2005 No. 580
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Sub-paragraph (j) was added by regulation 6(3) of S.R. 2004 No. 394
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Paragraph 2 was substituted by regulation 7(5) of S.R. 2005 No. 580
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Paragraph 12 was amended by regulation 30(c)(i) of S.R. 1988 No. 146, regulation 15(b) of S.R. 1988 No. 431, regulation 6(e) of S.R. 1989 No. 395, regulation 2(5)(b) of S.R. 1990 No. 387, regulation 10(4)(b)(i) of S.R. 1992 No. 6, regulation 2(9)(a)(i) of S.R. 1994 No. 327, regulation 2(12) of S.R. 1995 No. 67, regulation 2(8) of S.R. 1995 No. 367, regulation 8(3)(b) of S.R. 1998 No. 324, regulation 24(5)(e) of S.R. 2003 No. 191, paragraph 20(b) of Schedule 1 to S.R. 2003 No. 195, regulation 2(d)(i) of S.R. 2003 No. 367, regulation 2(c) of S.R. 2003 No. 413, regulation 4 of S.R. 2004 No. 213 and regulation 3(3) of S.R. 2005 No. 580
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Paragraph 2 was substituted by regulation 7(5) of S.R. 2005 No. 580