Income Support
(General Provisions) (Amendment No. 6) (Jersey)
Order 2011
Made 16th August 2011
Coming into force 5th
September 2011
THE MINISTER FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, in pursuance of Articles 2, 7
and 18 of the Income Support (Jersey) Law 2007[1], orders as follows –
1 Interpretation
In this Order “principal Order” means the Income Support
(General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2008[2].
2 Article 5
amended
(1) In
Article 5(1)(b) of the principal Order for the words
“paragraph (2)” there shall be substituted the words
“paragraph (2)(a) or (b)”.
(2) For
Article 5(2) of the principal Order there shall be substituted the
following paragraph –
“(2) The circumstances mentioned
in paragraph (1)(b) are that –
(a) one of the persons is under 25 years
and is excepted from the requirement to be engaged in full time remunerative
work by virtue of Article 3(1)(e) of the Law (persons undergoing education
or training on any course approved by the Minister) but does not meet the
criteria for the rate payable in respect of the personal care element of the
impairment component under paragraph 6(3)(b) or (c) of Schedule 1 to
the Regulations; or
(b) one of the persons is
under 19 years and is excepted from the requirement to be engaged in
full time remunerative work by virtue of Article 3(1)(g) of the Law
(persons available for, and actively seeking, full time remunerative work) but
does not meet the criteria for the rate payable in respect of the personal care
element of the impairment component under paragraph 6(3)(b) or (c) of
Schedule 1 to the Regulations.”.
3 Schedule 2
amended
In Schedule 2 to the principal Order –
(a) for
paragraph 5(b) there shall be substituted the following
sub-paragraph –
“(b) 100% of the earnings of any
children in the household;”;
(b) after
paragraph 5(d) there shall be inserted the following
sub-paragraph –
(da) 100% of any income derived from a pension received
by any children in the household;”;
(c) in
paragraph 5(e) –
(i) at
the beginning there shall be inserted the words “subject to sub-paragraph
(i),”,
(ii) after
the words “person in the household” there shall be inserted the
words “above the upper limit of compulsory school age but”;
(d) after
paragraph 5(h) there shall be added the following
sub-paragraph –
“(i) in the case of a person
who –
(i) is
under 25 years,
(ii) is
treated for the purpose of Article 5(1) as being a member of the same
household of another person, and
(iii) is
so treated because he or she occupies the same dwelling as his or her principal
residence as that other person and is excepted from the requirement to be
engaged in full time remunerative work by virtue of Article 3(1)(e) of the
Law (persons undergoing education or training on any course approved by the
Minister) but does not meet the criteria for the rate payable in respect of the
personal care element of the impairment component under paragraph 6(3)(b)
or (c) of Schedule 1 to the Regulations,
100% of the aggregate of the
person’s earnings and any income derived from a pension received by the
person, up to the value of the basic component payable in respect of that
person under Article 5(2)(a) of the Law.”.
4 Citation
and commencement
This Order may be cited as
the Income Support (General Provisions) (Amendment No. 6) (Jersey)
Order 2011 and shall come into force on 5th September 2011.
deputy i.j. gorst of st. clement
Minister for Social Security