Article 4 Amendment of the Social Security Benefit (Dependency) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1977^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 1(2) (interpretation) for the definition of “the determining authority”^f2 there shall be substituted the following definition—

““the determining authority” means, as the case may require, the Department, an appeal tribunal to which there is a right of appeal pursuant to Article 13 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 or a Commissioner to whom an appeal lies under Article 15 of that Order;”.

(3)

In regulation 3(4)(b) (allocation of contributions for spouse or children)—

(a)

for “varied on review” there shall be substituted “superseded”;

(b)

for “such review” there shall be substituted “such supersession”; and

(c)

for “the review” there shall be substituted “the supersession”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 4 in operation at 29.11.1999 for specified purposes, see art. 3

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1977 No. 74; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1983 No. 193 and S.R. 1984 No. 174
f2: The definition of “the determining authority” was substituted by regulation 8 of S.R. 1984 No. 174