2014 No. 121

Social Security

The Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Made

Coming into operation

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 70(8) and 171(1) and (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 F1, and now vested in it F2.

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

1992 c.7; section 171(1) is amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

F2

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

Citation and commencement1

These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 and shall come into operation on 20th May 2014.

Amendment of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations2

In regulation 8(1) of the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 F3 (circumstances in which a person is or is not to be treated as gainfully employed) for “£100” substitute “ £102 ”.

Revocation3

Regulation 2 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 F4 is revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 24th April 2014

Anne McCleary A senior officer of theDepartment for Social Development

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend regulation 8(1) the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 to increase, from £100 to £102, the amount of weekly earnings that a person can receive before being treated as gainfully employed for the purposes of entitlement to carer's allowance.

Regulation 3 makes a consequential revocation.

These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.