
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Habitual Residence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2014.
2 
In regulation 85A of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (special cases: supplemental – persons from abroad) for paragraph (2) substitute—“
(2) No claimant shall be treated as habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland unless—
(a) the claimant has been living in any of those places for the past three months; and
(b) the claimant has a right to reside in any of those places, other than a right to reside which falls within paragraph (3).”.
3 
The amendment in regulation 2 does not apply in relation to a claim for a jobseeker’s allowance which is made or treated as made before these Regulations come into operation.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 19th December 2013
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
