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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 21st April 1996.
(2) These Regulations shall have effect in relation to any particular claimant—
(a) in a case where income support is paid to the claimant in arrears in accordance with paragraph 7(1)(a) of Schedule 7 to the Claims and Payments Regulations (date when change of circumstances is to take effect)—
(i) from the first day of the benefit week which includes 28th April 1996, or
(ii) if the claim for income support is for a period beginning after 28th April 1996, from the first day of the first benefit week commencing after that date;
(b) in a case where income support is paid to the claimant in advance in accordance with paragraph 7(1)(b) of Schedule 7 to the Claims and Payments Regulations, from the first day of the first benefit week commencing after 28th April 1996,
and for this purpose the expressions “claimant” and “benefit week” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the Income Support Regulations (interpretation).
(3) In these Regulations—
 “the Claims and Payments Regulations” means the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;
 “the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987.
(4) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
2 
In Schedule 3 to the Income Support Regulations (housing costs) in paragraph 12(1)(a) (the standard rate) for “8·00 per cent.” there shall be substituted “7·74 per cent.”.
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(1) Regulation 2(b) of the Income Support (General) (Amendment and Transitional) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 is hereby revoked.
(2) The Income Support (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 are hereby revoked save that those regulations shall continue to have effect until the first day of the benefit week having effect in relation to any particular claimant for the purposes of regulation 1(2) of these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
W. G. Purdy
Assistant Secretary
26th March 1996.