Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 3456
SOCIAL SECURITY, NORTHERN IRELAND
TAXES, NORTHERN IRELAND
The Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 9) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001
Made
22nd October 2001
Laid before Parliament
23rd October 2001
Coming into force
13th November 2001
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 132(4)(b) and (c), 133(1) and 171(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992( 1 ), and section 2(1)(a) and (4) of, and paragraphs 3(g) and 22(a) of Schedule 2 to, the Tax Credits Act 1999( 2 ), hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and effect
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 9) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 13th November 2001.
(2) These Regulations shall have effect in relation to award periods commencing on or after 13th November 2001.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“award periods” means award periods of disabled person’s tax credit or, as the case may be, working families' tax credit;
“the Disability Working Allowance Regulations” means the Disability Working Allowance (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992( 3 );
“the Family Credit Regulations” means the Family Credit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987( 4 ).
Amendments to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations and the Family Credit Regulations
3. Amend the Disability Working Allowance Regulations and the Family Credit Regulations as follows.
Income treated as capital
4. In regulation 34(4) of the Disability Working Allowance Regulations and regulation 31(4) of the Family Credit Regulations( 5 ) after “paragraph 1,” insert “1A,”.( 6 )
Capital to be disregarded
5. —(1) Amend Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations (“Schedule 4”) and Schedule 3 to the Family Credit Regulations (“Schedule 3”) as follows.
(2) Add as paragraph 70 of Schedule 4 and paragraph 71 of Schedule 3( 7 ) the following paragraph—
“ (1) Where a payment has been made by, or on behalf of, a government of the country outside the United Kingdom, either from its own resources or with contributions from any other organisation, by way of compensation for a victim of National Socialism, the amount of that payment.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1) the reference to a victim of National Socialism is a reference to a person who was required to work as a slave or forced labourer for National Socialists or their sympathisers during the Second World War, or suffered property loss, or suffered injury, or is the parent of a child who died, at the hands of National Socialists or their sympathisers during the Second World War. ” .
Nick Ainger
John Heppell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
22nd October 2001
1992 c. 7 . Section 133(1) is cited because of the meaning it ascribes to the word “prescribed”.
Regulations 31 (4) was amended by regulation 10 of S.R. 1988 No. 423 .
Paragraph 1A of Schedule 4 to the Disability Working Allowance Regulations was inserted by regulation 4 of S.I. 2001/3086 , and paragraph 1A of Schedule 3 to the Family Credit Regulations was inserted by regulation 5 of S.I. 2001/3086 .
Paragraph 69 of Schedule 4 and paragraph 70 of Schedule 3 were added by S.I. 2001/2221 .