Regulation 5 Amendment of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) RegulationsI1

For regulation 7 of the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994^f1 (limit of earnings from councillor’s allowance) substitute—

“Limit of earnings from councillor’s allowance

7.

(1)

Subject to paragraph (3), for the purpose of section 30E(of the Contributions and Benefits Act (incapacity benefit: reduction for councillor’s allowance) the prescribed amount is 16 times the national minimum wage.

(2)

In this regulation “national minimum wage” means the rate of the national minimum wage specified in regulation 11 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (rate of the national minimum wage).

(3)

Where the amount determined by the calculation in paragraph (1) would, but for this paragraph, include an amount of—

(a)

less than 50p, that amount shall be rounded up to the nearest 50p; or

(b)

less than £1 but more than 50p, that amount shall be rounded up to the nearest £1.”.