Regulation 8
1. A person who is a lone parent and responsible for a child who is a member of his household.
2. A single claimant or a lone parent with whom a child is boarded out by a Health and Social Services Board or a voluntary organisation within the meaning of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968(1).
3. A person who is—
(a)looking after a child because the parent of that child or the person who usually looks after him is ill or is temporarily absent from his home; or
(b)looking after a member of the family who is temporarily ill.
4. A person who is regularly and substantially engaged in caring for another person if—
(a)the person doing the caring is in receipt of an invalid care allowance under section 37 of the principal Act(2);
(b)the person being cared for is in receipt of attendance allowance under section 35 of that Act; or
(c)the person being cared for has claimed attendance allowance under that section but only for the period up to the date of determination of that claim, or the period of 26 weeks from the date of that claim, whichever date is the earlier.
5. A person who, by reason of some disease or bodily or mental disablement, is incapable of work.
6. A person who is mentally or physically disabled and whose earning capacity is, by reason of that disability, reduced to 75 per cent. or less of what he would, but for that disability, be reasonably expected to earn.
7. A person who is a student and who, by reason of any mental or physical disability, would, in comparison with other students, be unlikely to obtain employment within a reasonable period of time.
8. A person who is a blind person registered with a Health and Social Services Board, established under Article 16 of the 1972 Order, but a person who has ceased to be so registered on regaining his eyesight shall nevertheless be treated as so registered for a period of 28 weeks following the date on which he ceased to be so registered.
9. A woman who—
(a)is incapable of work by reason of pregnancy; or
(b)is or has been pregnant but only for the period commencing 11 weeks before her expected week of confinement and ending 7 weeks after the date on which her pregnancy ends.
10. A person to whom any provision of regulation 13(2)(a) to (e) (circumstances in which persons in relevant education are to be entitled to income support) applies.
11. A person who is in receipt of a training allowance.
12. A person who is following an Open University course and is attending, as a requirement of that course, a residential course.
13. A person who is within 10 years of attaining pensionable age and—
(a)has not been in remunerative work during the previous 10 years; and
(b)has no prospect of future employment in remunerative work; and
(c)during that period has not been required to be available for employment in accordance with Article 21(3)(d)(i) of the Order (conditions of entitlement to income support), or would not have been so required had a claim to income support been made by or in respect of him.
14. A person aged not less than 60.
15. A person who is in receipt of an allowance under the Job Release Act 1977(3).
16. Notwithstanding that he would otherwise be a student, a person who is a refugee within the definition in Article 1 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees done at Geneva on 28th July 1951(4) as extended by Article 1(2) of the Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees done at New York on 31st January 1967(5) and who—
(a)is attending for more than 15 hours a week a course for the purpose of learning English so that he may obtain employment; and
(b)on the date on which that course commenced, had been in Northern Ireland for not more than 12 months,
but only for a period not exceeding 9 months.
17. A person who is required to attend court for any period exceeding 2 days as a justice of the peace, a party to any proceedings, a witness or a juror.
18. A person who has been discharged from detention in a prison, remand centre or young offender's centre but only for the period of 7 days commencing with the date of his discharge.
19. A person to whom Article 24 of the Order (trade disputes) applies or in respect of whom Article 21(3) of the Order (conditions of entitlement to income support) has effect as modified by Article 24(8) of the Order (persons affected by a trade dispute and such persons returning to work for the first 15 days).
20. A person to whom regulation 70(3) (applicable amount of certain persons from abroad) applies.
21. A person remanded in, or committed in, custody for trial or for sentencing.
1975 c. 15; section 37(3) was amended by Article 38(1) of, and Schedule 10 to, the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1986
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Cmnd. 3906