{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-related-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-related-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/383",
  "legislation_title": "The Age-Related Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-related-payments-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Procedure",
  "text": "(1) Where before 31st December 2005 the Department thinks that a person is entitled to a payment under any of regulations 2 to 5, the Department shall make the payment before that date without a claim being required.\n(2) Where, by virtue of a decision made after the relevant week that section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 (exclusions) ceases to apply to a person, the Department thinks that the person is entitled to a payment, under any of regulations 2 to 5, the Department shall make the payment without a claim being required.\n(3) A person who is entitled to a payment under any of regulations 2 to 5 and who does not receive it before 31st December 2005, may claim the payment.\n(4) A claim under paragraph (3) must—\n(a) be in writing to the Department;\n(b) be received by the Department before 31st March 2006; and\n(c) specify—\n(i) the claimant’s name, address, date of birth and national insurance number (if he has one); and\n(ii) the date on which the claim is sent to the Department; and\n(d) include a declaration that the claimant was ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland on at least one day in the relevant week.\n(5) If the Department is satisfied that a person making a claim under paragraph (3) is entitled to a payment under any of regulations 2 to 5, the Department shall make the payment.\n(6) The provisions of Chapter II of Part II of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (Social Security Decisions and Appeals) shall apply to a decision of the Department about a person’s entitlement to a payment under regulations 2 to 5 (whether or not following a claim) as they apply to a decision of the Department under Article 9 of that Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 1.9.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/383/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:51:02.083972+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}