The Employment Protection (Recoupment of Jobseeker’s Allowance and Income Support) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations, which come into operation on 7th October 1996, replace the Industrial Relations (Recoupment of Unemployment Benefit and Supplementary Benefit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977. The Regulations make provision for the recovery by the Department of Health and Social Services from an employer of sums on account of jobseeker’s allowance and income support out of a prescribed part of an amount awarded by an industrial tribunal in certain proceedings brought by an employee against an employer. These proceedings are listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.