Regulation 16 Capital to be disregardedI1

Each of the Schedules specified in paragraph (2) (which relate to capital to be disregarded) shall be modified in their application to persons to whom this Part applies as if at the end of each of those Schedules there were added the following paragraphs bearing the respective specified paragraph numbers—

• “Any child care expenses reimbursed to the claimant in respect of his participation in the programme known as the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilot for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations, but only for a period of 52 weeks from the date of receipt of the payment.

• Any top-up payment made to a person (“the participant”) pursuant to—

  1. (a)

     section 1 of the Employment and Training Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 in respect of the participant’s participation in the intensive activity period of the New Deal pilot for 25 plus as defined for the purposes of the Social Security (New Deal Pilot) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations (“the intensive activity period”), or

  2. (b)

     a written arrangement entered into between the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment and the person who has arranged for the participant’s participation in the intensive activity period and which is made in respect of the participant’s participation in that period,

  but only for the period of 52 weeks beginning on and including the date of receipt of the payment.”.

The respective paragraph numbers and Schedules specified for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—