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# PAYMENT SCHEME 

# DISABLED PERSONS 

# 2020 No. 490 

The Victims’ Payments (Amendment) Regulations 2020 

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The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 10 and 11 of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019( a ). 

## Citation, commencement and extent 

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Victims’ Payments (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 29th May 2020. 

(2) Regulations 1 and 2(1) and (3) extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. 

(3) Regulation 2(2) and (4) to (7) extend to Northern Ireland only. 

## Amendment of Victims’ Payments Regulations 2020 

2. —(1) The Victims’ Payments Regulations 2020( b ) are amended as follows. 

(2) In regulation 5, in paragraph (3), for “14(c)(i)” substitute “14(1)(c)(i) or (5)(c)(i)”. 

(3) In regulation 29— 

(a) in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) substitute— 

“(2A) A person to whom a notice under this paragraph is given may make a claim to the Board that— 

(a) the person is unable to comply with the notice, or 

(b) it is not reasonable in all the circumstances to require the person to comply with the notice.”; 

(4) In regulation 34, in paragraph (1), after sub-paragraph (f) insert— 

(b) in paragraphs (3) and (4), for “(3)” substitute “(2A)”. 

“(g) a determination made or varied under regulation 43(6)(b).”. 

