Regulation 4 ExemptionsI1

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

(1)

The following claims for a specified benefit do not give rise to an interview under regulation 3—

(a)

claims by persons who at the time the claim is made are engaged in remunerative work;

(b)

except in a case to which paragraph (2) applies, claims for a specified benefit where the person making the claim is also claiming a jobseeker’s allowance;

(c)

except in a case to which paragraph (2) applies, claims for a specified benefit where, at the time the claim is made, the person making the claim is entitled to a jobseeker’s allowance;

(d)

claims by persons who are not present in, and who do not normally reside in, Northern Ireland.

(2)

Notwithstanding paragraph 1(b) and (c), a claim for a specified benefit shall give rise to an interview under regulation 4 where—

(a)

at the time the claim was made, the person making the claim is a member of a joint-claim couple as defined for the purposes of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996^f1, and

(b)

it has been decided that that person is a person to whom a paragraph of Schedule A1^f2 to those Regulations applies (categories of members of joint-claim couples who are not required to satisfy the conditions in Article 3(2B)(b) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995^f3).

(3)

The following claims for housing benefit do not give rise to an interview under regulation 3—

(a)

claims made on the expiry of a benefit period;

(b)

claims made in consequence of the claimant moving from one dwelling to another within the postcode districts specified in Schedule 1.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Reg. 4 in operation at 14.5.2001, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1996 No. 198
f2: Schedule A1 was inserted by regulation 2(4) of, and Schedule 1 to, S.R. 2000 No. 350
f3: S.I. 1995/2705(N.I.15); Article 3(2B) was inserted by paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 7 to the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999