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Regulation 5 Amendment of the State Pension Credit RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The State Pension Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).

I2(2)

In regulation 15(5) (income for the purposes of the Act)—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (f)f1 substitute—

“(f)

royalties or other sums paid as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright, design, patent or trade mark;”;

(b)

for sub-paragraph (g) substitute—

“(g)

any payment in respect of any—

(i)

book registered under the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982, or

(ii)

work made under any international public lending right scheme that is analogous to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982;”.

(3)

In regulation 17 (calculation of weekly income)—

(a)

for paragraph (5)(a) substitute—

“(a)

royalties or other sums received as a consideration for the use of, or the right to use, any copyright, design, patent or trade mark;”;

(b)

for paragraph (5)(b) substitute—

“(b)

any payment in respect of any—

(i)

book registered under the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982; or

(ii)

work made under any international public lending right scheme that is analogous to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982, and;”; and

(c)

for paragraph (9)(b) substitute—

“(b)

any amount to which paragraph (5) applies where the claimant is the first owner of the copyright, design, patent or trademark, or an original contributor to the book or work referred to in paragraph (5)(b).”.

(4)

In Schedule 5 (income from capital) after paragraph 23Af2 insert—

“23B.

Any payment made under Part 8A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (entitlement to health in pregnancy grant).”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 5(1) in operation at 6.4.2009, see reg. 1(1)

I2

Reg. 5(2)-(4) coming into operation in accordance with reg. 1(3)

Footnotes

f1

Sub-paragraph (f) was amended by regulation 2(7)(a) of S. R. 2003 No. 421

f2

Paragraph 23A was added by regulation 23(9)(c) of S.R 2003 No. 191 and renumbered by regulation 3(5) of S.R. 2004 No. 110