Regulation 31 Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000

(1)

The Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 2000^f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 1(3) (interpretation)^f2, after the definition of “income-related employment and support allowance” insert—

“; “universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012”.

(3)

In regulation 2 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)^f3—

(a)

after paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A)
For the purposes of entitlement to universal credit, a person falling within a category or description of persons specified in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part I of the Schedule is a person to whom section 115 of the Act does not apply.”; and

(b)

in paragraph (5)—

(i)

after “entitlement to” insert “universal credit,”; and

(ii)

for “a jobseeker’s allowance” substitute “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance under the Jobseekers Act 1995”; and

(iii)

before “employment and support allowance” insert “income-related”.

(4)

In the heading to Part I of the Schedule (persons not excluded from certain benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)^f4, after “entitlement to” insert “universal credit,”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2000/636.
f2: Regulation 1(3) has been amended in ways that are not relevant to these Regulations.
f3: Regulation 2 has been amended in ways that are not relevant to these Regulations.
f4: Part 1 of the Schedule was amended by S.I. 2008/1554.