Income Support
(General Provisions) (Amendment No. 8) (Jersey)
Order 2012
Made 16th August 2012
Coming into force 1st
September 2012
THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, in pursuance of Articles 2 and 18
of the Income Support (Jersey) Law 2007[1], orders as follows –
1 Article 2
of the Income Support (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2008 amended
In Article 2 of the Income Support (General Provisions)
(Jersey) Order 2008[2] for paragraphs (2) and
(3) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs –
“(2) Unless any of the
circumstances described in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of paragraph (3)
applies, the period of 5 years mentioned in paragraph (1) must be
continuous and immediately precede the application for income support.
(3) Those circumstances are that –
(a) the person has been ordinarily resident in
Jersey at any time for a continuous period of at least 10 years;
(b) the person was born in Jersey and has been ordinarily
resident in Jersey for a period or periods totalling 10 years or more;
(c) the person –
(i) has
been ordinarily resident in Jersey for a period or periods totalling 10 years
or more commencing prior to the person’s 20th birthday, and
(ii) the
person is a child of a person who falls within any sub-paragraph of Regulation 1(1)(a)
to (h) of the Housing (General Provisions) (Jersey) Regulations 1970[3]; or
(d) paragraph (4) applies and neither sub-paragraph (b)
nor sub-paragraph (c) applies.”.
2 Citation
and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment
No. 8) (Jersey) Order 2012 and shall come into force on 1st September 2012.
senator f. du h. le gresley
Minister for Social Security