Article 12 Amendment of the Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations

(1)

The Social Security (Payments on account, Overpayments and Recovery) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988^f1 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and interpretation) omit the definitions of “bereavement benefit” and “bereavement payment”^f2.

(3)

In regulation 8(1) (duplication and prescribed payments) for sub-paragraph (h)^f3 substitute—

“(h)
any widowed parent’s allowance under section 39A^f4 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.R.1988 No. 142; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2001 No. 108
f2: The definitions of “bereavement benefit” and “bereavement payment” were inserted by regulation 11(2) of S.R. 2001 No. 108
f3: Sub-paragraph (h) was added by regulation 11(3) of S.R. 2001 No. 108
f4: Section 39A was inserted by Article 52(2) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)) and amended by paragraph 74 of Schedule 24, and Schedule 30, to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33); paragraph 29(2) and (3) of Schedule 1 to the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c. 6) and section 47 of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c. 2 (N.I.))