PART 3 AMENDMENTS OF SECONDARY LEGISLATION

CHAPTER 1 SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

23 Amendment of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations
In regulation 2(1) of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 (interpretation)—
(a) after the definition of “child benefit” insert—

““contribution-based jobseekers allowance” means an allowance under the Jobseekers Order as amended by the provisions of Part 1 of Schedule 12 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 that remove references to an income-based allowance, and a contribution-based allowance under the Jobseekers Order as that Order has affect apart from those provisions;”

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(b) after the definition of “contributory benefit” insert—

““contributory employment and support allowance” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 12, to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 that remove references to an income-related allowance, and a contributory allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act as that Part has effect apart from those provisions;”

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(c) after the definition of “the enhanced rate” insert—

““income-based jobseeker’s allowance” means an income-based allowance under the Jobseekers Order;
“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act;”

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The definition for “the enhanced rate” was inserted by Article 13(2)(b) of S.I. 2013/3021 and amended by regulation 9 of the Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 228)
(d) in the definition of “personal benefit”, after the words “dependency benefit” insert “ or universal credit under Part 2 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015”.
The definition of “personal benefit” was amended by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1980 No. 451, regulation 11(2)(c) of S.R. 1996 No. 289, regulation 4(a) of S.R. 2005 No. 299 and regulation 9(2)(c) of S.R. 2008 No. 286
Reg. 23 comes into operation in accordance with reg. 1(1)
S.R. 1979 No. 242; relevant amendments are regulation 11(2) of S.R. 1996 No. 289 and regulation 9(2) of S.R. 2008 No. 286