# The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, Regulation 3: Abolition of urgent case payments: supplementary provisions

Extent: N.I.

(1) The following consequential amendments have effect.
(2) In the Income Support Regulations—
(a) in regulation 17(1) (applicable amounts) omit “and 70” and “and urgent cases”;
(b) in regulation 18(1) (polygamous marriages) omit “and 70” and “and urgent cases”;
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(d) in Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person), for paragraph 21 (persons from abroad) substitute—
“Persons from abroad
21. A person not excluded from entitlement to income support under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act by virtue of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 except for a person to whom paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part 1 of the Schedule to those Regulations applies.”.
(3) In the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations—
(a) in regulation 83 (applicable amounts) omit “or Part X” and “and urgent cases”;
(b) in regulation 84(1) (polygamous marriages) omit “or Part X (urgent cases)”;
(c) in regulation 86A (applicable amounts for joint-claim couples) omit “or Part X (urgent cases)”;
(d) in regulation 86B (applicable amounts for joint-claim couples: polygamous marriages) omit “or Part X (urgent cases)”.
(4) In the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations—
(a) in regulation 67(1) (prescribed amounts) omit “and 163” and “and urgent cases”;
(b) in regulation 68(1) (polygamous marriages) for “regulations 69 and 163 (special cases and urgent cases)” substitute “regulation 69 (special cases)”.
(5) In regulation 2 of the Immigration and Asylum Regulations (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Act)—
(a) for paragraph (5) substitute—
“(5) For the purposes of entitlement to income support, a jobseeker’s allowance, an employment and support allowance or a social fund payment under the Contributions and Benefits Act, as the case may be, a person who is an asylum seeker within the meaning of paragraph (5) of regulation 11 who has not ceased to be an asylum seeker by virtue of paragraph (6) of that regulation is a person to whom section 115 of the Act does not apply.”;
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/6/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-3
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