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FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1971 - SECT 1

Family income supplement .

1.(1) For the purposes of this Act a family shall consist of the following
members of a household

(a)a man or woman engaged and normally engaged in remunerative full-time work;
and

(b)if the person mentioned in the preceding paragraph is one of a married or
unmarried couple, the other member of the couple; and

(c)the child or children whose requirements are provided for, in whole or in
part, by the person or either of the persons mentioned in paragraphs (a) and
(b);

[(1A) It shall be the duty of the Department to appoint persons to perform the
functions conferred by this Act on supplement officers.]

(2) A benefit, to be known as a family income supplement, shall be paid (on a
claim duly made thereto) for any family in Northern Ireland if the weekly
amount of its resources, so far as taken into account for the purposes of
this Act, falls short of the prescribed amount.[


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