(b) references to a person being a member of a household are to be construed in accordance with Article 5 of the Income Support (General Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2008.

PART 2

entitlement to bonus

2 Payment of bonus

The Minister must pay a Community Costs Bonus –

(a) on behalf of a household that qualifies for it under Regulation 3;

(b) to a member of that household who applies for it in accordance with Regulation 4;

3 Qualifying conditions

(1) A household qualifies for a bonus in a year if it meets all of the conditions in paragraphs (2) to (4) in relation to that year.

(2) The first condition is that no person has received on behalf of the household any payment which –

(a) relates to any of the 7 days preceding the day on which the application is made for the bonus;

(b) is made under the 2007 Law; and

(3) The second condition is that where an application for a bonus is made on behalf of the household –

(a) no member of the household was served with a notice of assessment under Article 25 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961 (“Income Tax Law”) showing a liability to income tax for the year of assessment preceding the year to which the application relates; or

(b) in the case of an application relating to the year 2022, the combined liability to income tax of all members of the household served with a notice of assessment under Article 25 of the Income Tax Law is not more than £2,735 for the 2021 year of assessment.[2]

(4) The third condition is that at least one member of the household –

(a) is an adult on the date on which the application for the bonus is made; and

(b) subject to paragraphs (7) to (9), has been ordinarily resident in Jersey for a continuous period of 5 years immediately preceding the date on which the application for the bonus is made.

(5) Despite paragraph (1), if a household resides entirely in residential care that household is eligible for a bonus if –

(a) the conditions in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) are satisfied; and

(b) no member of the household has received a benefit referred to in Article 4(1)(b) of the Long-Term Care (Jersey) Law 2012 which relates to any of the 7 days preceding the day on which the application for the bonus is made.

(6) A payment made on behalf of a household is exempt if –

(a) it is, or it includes, a protected payment under the Income Support (Transitional Provisions) (Jersey) Order 2008; or

(b) in the case of –

(i) a household not residing entirely in residential care, it is a special payment under the 2007 Law, or

(ii) a household residing entirely in residential care, it is a special payment under the Income Support (Special Payments) (Jersey) Regulations 2007.

(7) A person resident outside Jersey is nevertheless to be treated as being ordinarily resident in Jersey for any part of the period specified in paragraph (4)(b) in which that person’s principal residence is in Jersey.

(8) A person detained by virtue of a sentence of imprisonment, youth detention or similar punishment (whether in Jersey or elsewhere) is not to be treated as ordinarily resident in Jersey for the period during which the person is so detained.

(9) The period during which a person was ordinarily resident in Jersey immediately prior to a detention referred to in paragraph (8) is to be treated as if it immediately preceded the person’s release from that detention.

(10) In this Regulation “residential care” means services provided at an institution consisting of –

(a) lodging; and

(b) assistance with activities that are part of normal daily living (such as bathing).

4 Application for bonus

(1) An application for a bonus must be made to the Minister –

(a) in the year to which it relates except in the case of the year 2022, an application in relation to that year must be made not later than 30th June 2023; and

(b) on behalf of a qualifying household by a member of that household who meets the condition in Regulation 3(4).[3]

(2) Only one application for a bonus may be made for any one year on behalf of any one qualifying household.

5 Amount of bonus[4]

(1) For the years 2020 and 2021 the amount of the bonus is £258.25.

(2) For the year 2022 the amount of the bonus is £516.50.

PART 3

PROCEDURAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

6 Applications, determinations and appeals

The Schedule has effect.

7 Offences

(1) A person must not, with intent to obtain a bonus, whether on behalf of that person or of another person or of any household –

(a) furnish any information that he or she knows to be false in a material particular;

(b) recklessly furnish any information that is false in a material particular; or

(2) A person must not obtain or receive a bonus, whether on behalf of that person or of another person or of any household, knowing that it was not properly payable to, or not properly receivable by, him or her.

(3) A person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of 2 years and to a fine.

8 Offences by bodies corporate and others

(1) In this Regulation –

“relevant offence” means an offence under these Regulations that is committed by a limited liability partnership, a separate limited partnership, an incorporated limited partnership or another body corporate;

“relevant person” means –

(a) if the relevant offence is committed by a limited liability partnership, a partner of the partnership;

(b) if the relevant offence is committed by a separate limited partnership or an incorporated limited partnership –

(i) a general partner, or

(ii) a limited partner who is participating in the management of the partnership;

(i) a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate, and

(ii) if the affairs of the body corporate are managed by its members, a member who is acting in connection with the member’s functions of management; and

(d) a person purporting to act in any capacity described in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) in relation to the partnership or body that commits the relevant offence.

(2) If a relevant offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of a relevant person, that relevant person is also guilty of the offence and liable in the same manner as the partnership or body corporate to the penalty provided for that offence.

9 Citation and duration

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Community Costs Bonus (Jersey) Regulations 2020.

(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after they are made and, unless earlier repealed, they remain in force for 3 years.

Schedule[5]

(Regulation 6)

applications, determinations and appeals

1 Interpretation

In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires –

“applicant” means a person who has made an application for a bonus under these Regulations;

“determining officer” means a determining officer as defined in the 2007 Law or as appointed under Article 33 of the Social Security (Jersey) Law 1974;

“Registrar” is to be construed in accordance with Article 4 of the Social Security (Determination of Claims and Questions) (Jersey) Order 1974;

“Royal Court” means the Inferior Number of the Royal Court;

“Tribunal” means the Social Security Tribunal constituted under Article 8 of the Social Security (Determination of Claims and Questions) (Jersey) Order 1974.

2 Manner in which applications are to be made

(1) An application for a bonus must be made to the Minister on a form approved by the Minister, or in such other manner as the Minister may accept as sufficient in the circumstances for the case.

(2) An application is treated as having been made on the day on which it is received by the Minister at an office approved by the Minister for the receiving of applications.

(3) If an application is defective at the date when it is received or has been made in a manner otherwise than as required by sub-paragraph (1), the Minister may refer the application to the applicant or, as the case may be, supply him or her with the form, and if the form is received properly completed within 14 days from that date on which the application is so referred, or the form is so supplied, to the applicant, the Minister must treat the application as if it had been duly made in the first instance.

(4) An applicant may, by notice in writing to the Minister, amend an application at any time before the application is determined and the Minister may treat the application as if it had been made as so amended in the first instance.

3 Late application

If in any case the applicant proves that there was good cause for a failure to make the application before the date on which it was made, the time prescribed by Regulation 4(1)(a) for making that application is extended to the date on which the application is made, subject to maximum extension of 6 months or in the case of an application relating to the year 2022, the maximum extension is one month.

4 Extinguishment of right to sum payable by way of bonus

(1) The right to payment of any sum by way of bonus is extinguished where payment of the sum is not obtained within the period of 2 years from the date on which the right is to be treated as having arisen.

(2) For the purpose of this paragraph the right is to be treated as having arisen –

(a) in relation to any such sum contained in an instrument of payment which has been given or sent, for the purposes of making payment of that sum, to the applicant or to an approved place for collection by the applicant (whether or not received or collected as the case may be), notwithstanding that that sum is greater or less than the sum to which the applicant has the right to payment –

(i) on the date on the said instrument of payment, or

(ii) if a further instrument of payment has been so given or sent as a replacement for an instrument of payment previously given or sent, on the date on the last such instrument of payment;

(b) in relation to any such sum to which clause (a) does not apply, but where notice is given (whether orally or in writing) or is sent that the sum contained in the notice is available for collection, notwithstanding that that sum is greater or less than the sum to which the applicant has the right to payment –

(i) if written notice is sent through the post, on the date on which it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and

(ii) in any other case, on the date of the notice,

and if more than one such notice is given or sent, on the date determined by reference to the first such notice;

(3) Where a question arises whether the right to payment of any sum by way of bonus has been extinguished by the operation of this paragraph and the determining officer or the Tribunal is satisfied that –

(a) after the expiration of the said period of 2 years the Minister has received notice requesting payment of that sum; and

(b) throughout a period commencing within the said period of 2 years and continuing up to the day on which the notice was given there was good cause for not giving that notice,

the said period of 2 years is extended to the date on which the determining officer or the Tribunal decides that question, and, for the purposes of the operation of this paragraph, after that decision the right to payment of that sum is to be treated as having arisen on that date.

(4) This paragraph applies to a person authorised or appointed to act on behalf of an applicant as it applies to an applicant.

5 Information and evidence in support of an application

(1) An applicant, or such other adult member of the household as the determining officer may specify, must furnish such certificates and other documents and information as the determining officer may require in connection with the application and, if reasonably so required, must for that purpose attend at such office or place as the determining officer may direct.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (1) and paragraph 2(1), the Minister may require the application to contain at least the following information –

(a) the address of the household;

(b) in relation to each adult member of the household, including the applicant, that person’s –

(i) title and full name (including any previous surname),

(ii) date of birth,

(iii) social security number,

(iv) relationship to the applicant, and

(v) employment status;

(c) a copy of any notice of assessment under Article 25 of the Income Tax (Jersey) Law 1961 for the preceding year related to any adult member of the household, including the applicant; and

(d) in relation to the applicant only –

(i) confirmation of that person’s period of ordinary residence in Jersey, and

(ii) details of a bank account, if available, into which the bonus can be paid, including the name of the bank, the sort code, the account number and the name of the account holder.

(3) The determining officer may treat an application as not having been made unless and until each adult member of the household has taken any step requested of that member by the determining officer to assist in enabling the Comptroller of Taxes to release to the determining officer any information that –

(a) is held by the Comptroller; and

(b) is required by the determining officer in order to determine whether the household meets the second condition, as set out in Regulation 3(3).

6 Persons unable to act

(1) In the case of an applicant who is unable to act who –

(a) has not been received into guardianship under a guardianship application under Article 29 of the Mental Health (Jersey) Law 2016; and

(b) does not have, acting on his or her behalf –

(i) a delegate appointed under Part 4 of the Capacity and Self-Determination (Jersey) Law 2016, or

(ii) a person acting under the authority of a lasting power of attorney conferred under Part 2 of that Law,

the Minister may, on receipt of a written request, appoint a person to act on the applicant’s behalf.

(2) However, any appointment by the Minister terminates –

(a) if the applicant is received into guardianship or has appointed, in relation to him or her, a person as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b);

(b) at the request of the person appointed;

(d) if the applicant becomes able to act.

7 Functions of determining officers

(1) An application for a bonus must be determined by a determining officer and where required under paragraph 8, redetermined by a second determining officer.

(2) The determining officer must notify in writing the applicant (or other person acting on his or her behalf) and all the other adult members of the applicant’s household –

(a) of every adverse determination or decision made in respect of the household and the reasons for it; and

(b) of their rights to challenge an adverse determination or decision, as set out in sub-paragraph (3) in the case of a first determination or as set out in sub-paragraph (4) in the case of a redetermination.

(3) In the case of an adverse first determination, the determining officer must notify the other persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) –

(a) of the right of any of them to have every adverse determination or decision reconsidered by a second determining officer;

(b) that this right must be exercised within 21 days of the person receiving notice of the determination or decision; and

(4) In the case of an adverse redetermination, the determining officer must notify the other persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) of the right of any of them to appeal to the Tribunal.

(5) Where the determining officer or, in the case of a redetermination, the second determining officer, has determined that the household is entitled to an award and the amount of the award, he or she must allow payment to be made.

8 Reconsideration by second determining officer

If an applicant or an adult member of the applicant’s household is dissatisfied with any determination under paragraph 7 that is made by a first determining officer considering the matter, he or she may require the matter to be reconsidered by a second determining officer at any time within 21 days of receiving notice of the decision or determination.

9 Appeals to Tribunal

(1) If an applicant or an adult member of the applicant’s household is dissatisfied with any redetermination by a second determining officer, he or she may appeal to the Tribunal within 14 days of receiving notification of the decision.

(2) An appeal made outside the 14 day period, but within 28 days of receiving notification of the determination, may be allowed with the consent of the chairman of the Tribunal.

(3) Every appeal must be made in writing to the Registrar on a form approved by the Registrar for that purpose, or in such manner as the Registrar may accept as sufficient in the circumstances of the case.

10 Further particulars

(1) The Tribunal may at any time require the applicant or the determining officer to furnish it with further particulars in writing and within such time as it may direct with regard to any appeal, and may at any stage of the proceedings allow the amendment of any application for appeal or any statement or particulars and extend the time for furnishing any statement or particulars.

(2) If, after the expiration of the time, or where the time has been extended, expiration of the extended time, for furnishing any statement or particulars under sub-paragraph (1), the applicant has failed to do so, the appeal is to be treated as having been abandoned.

11 Special procedure in cases of groundless appeals

(1) Where, in the opinion of a determining officer, an application for appeal is made on grounds that are bound to fail, the determining officer may, within 14 days of receiving the application, request the Registrar to place the papers before the chairman or deputy chairman of the Tribunal.

(2) If, on considering the papers, the chairman or deputy chairman of the Tribunal is of the opinion that the appeal is bound to fail, he or she must send a notice to the applicant stating that –

(a) he or she has considered the application for appeal and is of the opinion that the appeal is bound to fail; and

(b) unless the applicant renews his or her application to the Tribunal within 14 days of receiving the notification, the appeal will be treated as having been abandoned.

12 Decision without a hearing

If the applicant and the Minister agree and the Tribunal thinks that the case can properly be determined on the particulars supplied by the parties without a hearing, it may decide the matter without a hearing on the particulars so supplied.

13 Procedure of Tribunal

(1) The parties to the appeal are the applicant and the Minister and each party or any person acting on behalf of that party may make representations to the Tribunal.

(2) The Tribunal must sit in public unless the Tribunal considers it necessary to sit in private.

(3) However, no person other than the Registrar may be present while the Tribunal is considering its decision.

(4) The Tribunal may adjourn the hearing from time to time as it thinks fit.

(5) The Tribunal may, if it thinks fit, admit any duly authenticated written statement or other material as prima facie evidence of any fact or facts in any case in which it thinks it just and proper to do so.

(6) The Tribunal may, if it thinks fit, call for such documents and examine such witnesses as appear to it likely to afford evidence relevant and material to the issue, although not tendered by either the applicant or the Minister.

(7) If, after notice of the hearing has been duly given, the applicant or the Minister fails to appear at the hearing, the Tribunal may proceed to determine the appeal notwithstanding the absence of both or either of them, or may give such directions with a view to the determination of the application as the Tribunal thinks just and proper.

(8) The Tribunal may require any party to proceedings before the Tribunal under this Schedule or any witness in the proceedings to give evidence on oath and, for that purpose, the chairman or deputy chairman presiding over the Tribunal has power to administer an oath.

(9) Where, in connection with the determination of any application, there is before the Tribunal medical advice or medical evidence relating to the applicant that has not been disclosed to the applicant and, in the opinion of the chairman or deputy chairman, the disclosure to the applicant of that advice or evidence would be harmful to the applicant’s health, such advice or evidence is not required to be disclosed to the applicant, but the Tribunal is not by reason of such non-disclosure precluded from taking it into account for the purpose of the appeal.

(10) On the appeal of any case under this paragraph, the Tribunal may confirm, reverse or vary the decision of the second determining officer and must give its decision in public.

(11) The decision of the majority of the members of the Tribunal is the decision of the Tribunal and there must be a written record of the decision signed by the chairman or deputy chairman as the case may be which –

(a) includes the names of the Tribunal members;

(b) includes the reasons for the decision; and

and the Registrar must send a copy of such written record to the parties as soon as practicable after the appeal has taken place.

(12) Where the Tribunal has made a decision adverse to the applicant, the applicant must be advised that the decision on the facts is final but that he or she may appeal to the Royal Court on a point of law.

(13) Subject to this paragraph, the Tribunal may regulate its own procedure.

14 Appeals and references

(1) A person aggrieved by a decision of the Tribunal, may on a point of law only, appeal to the Royal Court.

(2) An appeal under sub-paragraph (1) may only be made with leave of the Tribunal or the Royal Court, and must be made before the end of the period of 4 weeks beginning with the date of the Tribunal’s written decision.

(3) An application for leave to appeal under sub-paragraph (2) may include an application to stay a decision of the Tribunal pending the appeal.

(4) No appeal lies from a decision of the Tribunal refusing leave for the institution or continuance of, or for the making of an application in, proceedings by a person who is the subject of an order under Article 1 of the Civil Proceedings (Vexatious Litigants) (Jersey) Law 2001.

(5) On hearing an appeal under this paragraph the Royal Court may –

(a) confirm the decision of the Tribunal wholly or in part;

(b) vary the decision of the Tribunal;

(d) remit the decision, wholly or in part, to the Tribunal to be retaken.

(6) The Tribunal or a determining officer may refer any point of law to the Royal Court for the Royal Court to give a ruling on the point.

15 Administrative expenses

The Minister may pay to any member of the Tribunal who exercises any functions under these Regulations, and any other person whose advice or assistance may be required for the purposes of these Regulations by the Tribunal or by a determining officer, such remuneration and expenses as the Minister may determine.

16 Recovery of awards wrongly made

(1) If it is found at any time that any award has been paid that was not properly payable, the Minister may require it to be repaid –

(a) if it was paid to a person in his or her own right or on behalf of a qualifying household, by that person; or

(b) if it was paid to a person on behalf of another person or a qualifying household, by that person, by that other person or by a member of that household.

(2) If it is found at any time that any award properly payable has been paid to a person not being a person by whom it was properly receivable, the Minister may require it to be repaid by the person to whom it was paid.

(3) In case of the death of a person who could be required to repay a sum under this paragraph, the Minister may require it to be repaid by the person charged with the administration of the deceased person’s personal estate.

(4) Proceedings for the recovery of any sum which a person is required under this paragraph to repay to the Minister may be instituted by the Treasurer of the States and notwithstanding any enactment or rule of law to the contrary, any such proceedings may be brought at any time within 10 years from the time when that sum was paid, or, where the proceedings are for the recovery of a consecutive series of sums, within 10 years from the date on which the last sum of the series was paid.

(5) Any sum which a person is required under this paragraph to repay to the Minister may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered by means of deduction from any other payment due under these Regulations to the person to whom the sum was paid, unless it was paid to that person on behalf of another, in which case it may, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recovered by means of deduction from any payment due under these Regulations to that other person.

17 Notices

Any notice, notification or other document required or authorised by this Schedule to be given to any person is deemed to have been given or sent if it was sent by post to that person at the person’s ordinary or last known address.

Endnotes

Table of Legislation History

Legislation	Year and No	Commencement	◦Projet No (where applicable)
Community Costs Bonus (Jersey) Regulations 2020	R&O.113/2020	10 September 2020	P.95/2020
Community Costs Bonus (Amendment) (Jersey) Regulations 2022	R&O.88/2022	28 September 2022	P.83/2022

◦Projets available at statesassembly.gov.je

Table of Endnote References

[1] These Regulations expired on 9 September 2023 in accordance with Regulation 9(2).

[2] Regulation 3(3) substituted by R&O.88/2022

[3] Regulation 4(1) amended by R&O.88/2022

[4] Regulation 5 text substituted by R&O.88/2022

[5] Schedule amended by R&O.88/2022

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