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(1) These regulations may be cited as the Health and Personal Social Services (Assessment of Resources) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 11th June 2001.
(2) In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Assessment of Resources) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993.
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In regulation 20 (capital limit) of the principal regulations for the amount “£16,000” substitute the amount “£18,500”.
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In regulation 28(1)(calculation of tariff income from capital) of the principal regulations—
(a) for the amount “£10,000” (both times it appears) substitute the amount “£11,500”; and
(b) for the amount “£16,000” substitute the amount “£18,500”.
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(1) At the end of Schedule 4 to the principal regulations (capital to be disregarded), after paragraph 19, there shall be added the following new paragraphs—“
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Any amount which would be disregarded under paragraph 57 of Schedule 10 to the Income Support Regulations (ex-gratia payment made by the Secretary of State in consequence of a person’s imprisonment or internment by the Japanese during the Second World War).
21 
Any payment which would be disregarded under paragraph 59 of Schedule 10 to the Income Support Regulations (payments under a trust established out of funds provided by the Secretary of State in respect of persons who suffered or are suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).”
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 11th May 2001.
Leslie Frew
Assistant Secretary
