
2022 No. 202
Social Security
The Social Security (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022
Made 25th August 2022
Coming into operation 15th September 2022
The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 115(3) and (4) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, and now vested in it.
Citation, commencement, interpretation and effect
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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 15th September 2022.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
(3) The amendments made by regulation 2 do not have effect in relation to a claim for housing benefit or state pension credit made before the date on which these Regulations come into operation.
Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations
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(1) Regulation 2 of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Act) is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In paragraph (1) omit—
(a) “housing benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act,”;
(b) “or state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002,”.
(3) In paragraph (1A)—
(a) after “entitlement to” insert “housing benefit under the Contributions and Benefits Act, state pension credit under the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 or”;
(b) after “universal credit,” insert “as the case may be,”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 25th August 2022
(L.S.)Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
