Article 6 Amendment of the Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) RegulationsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The Social Security (Widow’s Benefit and Retirement Pensions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In regulation 1 (interpretation)—

(a)

in paragraph (2) 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;”; and

(b)

in paragraph (3) for “the Department or the determining authority whichever is appropriate” there shall be substituted “the determining authority”.

(3)

In regulation 4(2)(b)(i) (days to be treated as days of increment) for “the Department or the determining authority, whichever is appropriate,” there shall be substituted “the determining authority”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 6 in operation at made date

Footnotes

f1: S.R. 1979 No. 243; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1984 No. 174
f2: The definition of “the determining authority” was substituted by regulation 14 of S.R. 1984 No. 174