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Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (Note)

Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND

2004 No. 8

HOUSING

Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made 9th January 2004

Coming into operation 16th February 2004

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I

GENERAL

1. - Citation and commencement

2. - Interpretation

3. - Persons from abroad

4. - Landlord's applications: power for Executive to obtain information from pension fund holders

5. - Requirement to produce national insurance number

6. - Definition of relevant person

7. - Definition of non-dependant

8. - Remunerative work

9. - Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another

10. - Circumstances in which a person is to be treated as being or not being a member of the household

11. - The applicable amount

12. - Financial resources

PART II

REDUCTION IN AMOUNT OF GRANT

13. - Reduction in amount of grant

14. - Successive applications

PART III

APPLICABLE AMOUNTS

15. - Applicable amounts

16. - Polygamous marriages

PART IV

INCOME AND CAPITAL

CHAPTER 1

GENERAL

17. - Income and capital of relevant person

18. - Determination of income and capital of members of relevant person's family and of a polygamous marriage

CHAPTER II

INCOME

19. - Determination of income on a weekly basis

20. - Treatment of child care charges

21. - Average weekly earnings of employed earners

22. - Average weekly earnings of self-employed earners

23. - Average weekly income other than earnings

24. - Determination of weekly income

CHAPTER III

EMPLOYED EARNERS

25. - Earnings of employed earners

26. - Determination of net earnings of employed earners

CHAPTER IV

SELF-EMPLOYED EARNERS

27. - Earnings of self-employed earners

28. - Determination of net profit of self-employed earners

29. - Deduction of tax and contributions for self-employed earners

CHAPTER V

OTHER INCOME

30. - Determination of income other than earnings

31. - Capital treated as income

32. - Notional income

33. - Modifications in respect of child and young person

CHAPTER VI

CAPITAL

34. - Determination of capital

35. - Disregard of capital of child or young person

36. - Income treated as capital

37. - Determination of capital in the United Kingdom

38. - Determination of capital outside the United Kingdom

39. - Notional capital

40. - Capital jointly held

41. - Determination of tariff income from capital

PART V

STUDENTS

42. - Interpretation

43. - Treatment of students

44. - Determination of grant income

45. - Relationship with amounts to be disregarded under Schedule 3

46. - Other amounts to be disregarded

47. - Treatment of student loans

48. - Disregard of contribution

49. - Treatment of payments from access funds

50. - Income treated as capital

51. - Further disregard of a student's income

PART VI

MISCELLANEOUS

52. - Revocations

SCHEDULES

1. - Applicable amounts

2. - Sums to be disregarded in the determination of earnings

3. - Sums to be disregarded in the determination of income other than earnings

4. - Capital to be disregarded

5. - Revocations

The Department for Social Development[1], in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 47[2] of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992[3] as applied by Regulations[4] made under Article 73 of that Order and now exercisable by it[5] and conferred on it by Articles 61, 62(5) and 148(1) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003[6], and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

GENERAL

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 16th February 2004.

Interpretation

2. - (1) In these Regulations -

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