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The Welfare Reform and Pensions (Persons Abroad: Benefits for Widows and Widowers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

S.R. 2001/287 · Made 23 July 2001

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SOCIAL SECURITY

Made 23rd July 2001

Coming into operation 20th August 2001

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 75(5)(a) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999f1, and now vested in itf2, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)

f2

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations
  3. 3Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Persons Abroad: Benefits for Widows and Widowers) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 20th August 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978f1.

2Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) after the definition of “bereavement benefit”f1 there shall be inserted the following definition—

  • ““bereavement payment” means a payment under section 36 of the Contributions and Benefits Actf2;”.

3Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 4(2B) of the principal Regulationsf1 (which specifies the circumstances in which a person shall not be disqualified for receiving a bereavement payment by reason of being absent from Northern Ireland) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(a)

the deceased spouse or the surviving spouse was in Northern Ireland at the time of the deceased spouse’s death;”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23rd July 2001.

L.S.

John O'Neill

Senior Officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations make consequential amendments to the Social Security Benefit (Persons Abroad) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978 (“the principal Regulations”) due to the substitution of section 36 of, and Part II of Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) (which deal with a bereavement payment), by Article 51 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations by inserting a definition of “bereavement payment”.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 4(2B) of the principal Regulations so that a person is not to be disqualified for receiving a bereavement payment by reason of being absent from Northern Ireland where, at the time of the deceased spouse’s death, either the deceased spouse or the surviving spouse was in Northern Ireland.

These Regulations do not impose any charge on business.