# The Universal Credit (Benefit Cap Earnings Exception) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017, Regulation 2: Exception to the application of the benefit cap – earnings


(1) The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) Before regulation 7(2)(a) (rounding) insert—
“(za) regulation 82(1)(a) (exceptions – earnings);”.
(3) In regulation 82 (exceptions – earnings)—
(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for “£430” substitute “the amount of earnings that a person would be paid at the hourly rate set out in regulation 4 of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 for 16 hours per week, converted to a monthly amount by multiplying by 52 and dividing by 12”;
(b) in paragraph (3) for “exceeded the amount mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)”, substitute—
“exceeded—
(a) in any month beginning before 1st April 2017, £430; and
(b) in any other case, the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph (1)(a).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/145/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-benefit-cap-earnings-exception-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2
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