Introductory text

Housing

Made 11th March 2008

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(d), 129(2), 129A(2) to (5) and 171(1) and (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f1 and sections 5(1)(q) and (5) and 165(1) and (4) to (6) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f2 and now vested in it^f3.

This Rule contains only regulations made consequential upon section 30(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007^f4.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1992 c. 7; section 129(2) was amended by Article 8(2) of the Housing Support Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3154 (N.I. 8)); section 129A was inserted by section 30(2) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)
f2: 1992 c. 8; section 5(5) was inserted by Article 3(1) of the Housing Benefit (Payment to Third Parties) (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/2597 (N.I. 20)) and in section 165 subsection (1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and subsection (6) was amended by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10))
f3: See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
f4: 2007 c. 2 (N.I.)