{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-163",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993/section-163.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/49",
  "legislation_title": "Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pension-schemes-northern-ireland-act-1993",
  "path": "section/163",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "163",
  "heading": "Application of general provisions relating to administration of social security.",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 shall apply as if references to that Act in the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) included references to the provisions referred to in section 160(1)(b) of this Act (in this section referred to as “the relevant provisions”).\n(2) The provisions referred to in subsection (1) are the following provisions of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992—\nsection 110 (legal proceedings)\nsection 118 (regulations as to notification of deaths)\n. . .\nsection 156 (payment of travelling expenses by the Department).\nsection 156A (payment of travelling expenses by Inland Revenue).\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Section 120 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (treatment of certain marriages) shall apply to the relevant provisions.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 163(2) repealed (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, s. 100(2), Sch. 15 (with s. 95); S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 163(2) inserted (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/671, arts. 1(3), 17, Sch. 6 para. 12(2); S.R. 1999/149, art. 2(c), Sch. 2 (with art. 14(1)(2)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 163(4) repealed (5.7.1999) by S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10), arts. 1(2), 78(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 98(2), Sch. 7; S.R. 1999/310, art. 2(b)(iv), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 8."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nia/2008/13",
      "affecting_title": "Pensions (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/49/section/163",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:31.493981+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."
}