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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 29th March 2001.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
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In the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987––
(a) in regulation 26 (calculation of income and capital of students), for the words from “have effect” to the end of the regulation, there shall be substituted “have effect in relation to students and their partners subject to the modifications set out in Chapter VIII thereof (students)”;
(b) for the title to Chapter VIII of Part V, there shall be substituted “STUDENTS”;
(c) in Schedule 9 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—
(i) in paragraph 59(1), for “full-time student” there shall be substituted “student”;
(ii) in paragraph 64(2), for the words from “as a result of” to the end of the sub-paragraph, there shall be substituted “as a result of the student’s attendance on the course where an amount in respect of those expenses has already been disregarded pursuant to regulation 66(1) (student’s income to be disregarded).”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 12th March 2001.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
