{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/191",
  "legislation_title": "The State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/state-pension-credit-consequential-transitional-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 13",
  "text": "In regulation 13 (income support and social fund determinations on incomplete evidence) –\n(a) in paragraph (1) –\n(i) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph –\n“(a) a determination falls to be made by the Department as to what housing costs are to be included in –\n(i) a claimant’s applicable amount by virtue of regulation 17(1)(e) or 18(1)(f) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Income Support Regulations, or\n(ii) a claimant’s appropriate minimum guarantee by virtue of regulation 6(6)(c) of, and Schedule 2 to, the State Pension Credit Regulations; and”; and\n(ii) for “applicable amount are those” there shall be substituted “applicable amount or, as the case may be, appropriate minimum guarantee are those”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph –\n“(3) Where, for the purposes of a decision under Article 9 or 11 –\n(a) a determination falls to be made by the Department as to whether a claimant’s appropriate minimum guarantee includes an additional amount in accordance with regulation 6(4) of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the State Pension Credit Regulations; and\n(b) it appears to the Department that it is not in possession of all the information or evidence which is relevant for the purpose of such a determination,\nit shall make the determination on the assumption that the relevant information or evidence which is not in its possession is adverse to the claimant.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in operation at 7.4.2003, see reg. 1(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/191/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:21.945114+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}