
2002 No. 332
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Income Support (General) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
Made 4th November 2002
Coming into operation 25th November 2002
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 122(1)(a), 123(1)(e) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and Articles 3(2C) and 36(2) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, and now vested in it, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Income Support (General) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 25th November 2002.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of the Income Support (General) Regulations
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In Schedule 1B (prescribed categories of person) to the Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 in paragraph 14(b) (pregnancy) after the word “ends” there shall be inserted “where the expected week of confinement begins prior to 6th April 2003 or fifteen weeks after the date on which her pregnancy ends where the expected week of confinement begins on or after 6th April 2003”.
Amendment of the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations
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Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 4th November 2002.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
