Income Support
(Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2015
A LAW to amend further the Income
Support (Jersey) Law 2007
Adopted by the
States 23rd June 2015
Sanctioned by
Order of Her Majesty in Council 8th October 2015
Registered by the
Royal Court 16th
October 2015
THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have
adopted the following Law –
1 Interpretation
In this Law “principal Law” means the Income Support
(Jersey) Law 2007[1].
2 Article
1 amended
In Article 1 of the principal Law –
(a) the
paragraph number “(1)” shall be inserted at the beginning;
(b) after
paragraph (1) there shall be added the following paragraphs –
“(2) The Minister may, by Order,
amend the definition ‘day care’ in paragraph (1).
(3) An Order made under paragraph (2) may,
for the purposes of the definition, establish or approve a scheme for the
accreditation, whether by the Minister or by a person designated by the
Minister, of either or both of –
(a) a person as a provider of day care;
(b) premises as a place at which day care is
provided.”.
3 Article
3 amended
In Article 3 of the principal Law –
(a) for
paragraph (2)(a) there shall be substituted the following
sub-paragraphs –
“(a) not more than one person may
be treated as having the main responsibility for the physical care of a person
mentioned in paragraph (1)(f);
(aa) where more than one person is treated as having
the main responsibility for the physical care of a child mentioned in
paragraph (1)(b) or (c), those persons are only eligible for income
support if they both comply with paragraph (2A);”;
(b) in
paragraph (2)(b) for the words beginning “if they are engaged
in” to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the words
“if they comply with paragraph (2A)”;
(c) after
paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph –
“(2A) The persons must be engaged in, or available
for and actively seeking, remunerative work for such hours (if any) as the
determining officer considers appropriate to their particular
circumstances.”;
(d) for
paragraph (3)(a) there shall be substituted the following
sub-paragraph –
“(a) amend this Article (apart
from this paragraph); and”.
4 Article
4 amended
After Article 4(3)(e) of the principal Law there shall be
inserted the following sub-paragraph –
“(ea) the circumstances in which payments may
be suspended or withheld;”.
5 Article
8 amended
After Article 8(6)(b) there shall be inserted the following
sub-paragraph –
“(ba) circumstances in which special payments
may be suspended or withheld;”.
6 Article
9 amended
After Article 9(3) of the principal Law there shall be added
the following paragraph –
“(4) Orders under paragraph (1)
may further provide for any question of law arising in connection with the determination
of a claim by a determining officer or a review or appeal before a Tribunal to
be referred to the Royal Court for a ruling on the question.”.
7 Citation
and commencement
This Law may be cited as the
Income Support (Amendment) (Jersey) Law 2015 and shall come into force 7 days
after it is registered.
m.n. de la haye, o.b.e.
Greffier of the States