# The Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994

S.R. 1994/21 · made 21 January 1994

These regulations amend regulation 64A of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 to ensure that a decision on a claim or question shall not be revised on review so as to make benefit payable or increase the amount of benefit payable in respect of that claim or question for any period before the date of the Commissioner’s decision on which the review was based.

Made under: Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (Section 25, Section 30, Section 33, Section 59)

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1994/pdf/nisr_19940021_en.pdf

## Introductory text

SOCIAL SECURITY
Made 21st January 1994
Coming into operation 28th February 1994
The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 25(1)(b), 30(8), 33(10) and 59(1) and (2) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that the proposals to make these regulations need not be referred to it, hereby makes the following regulations:

## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 and shall come into operation on 28th February 1994.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

## 2 Amendment of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations

(1) The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 64A (date from which revised decision has effect on a review in specified circumstances)—
(a) in paragraph (3) at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to paragraph (3A),”; and
(b) after paragraph (3) there shall he inserted the following paragraph—
“(3A) A determination on a claim or question shall not be revised on review, in consequence of a determination by a Commissioner in another case that a decision of an adjudicating authority was erroneous in point of law, under section 23(2) or 28(2)(d) of the Administration Act so as to make benefit payable or to increase the amount of benefit payable in respect of that claim or question for any period prior to the date of that Commissioner’s determination.”.
(3) In regulations 65(3), 66(1), 69(1) as continued in operation by regulation 10 of the Social Security (Adjudication) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and as amended by regulation 8 of those regulations, and 71 for “regulation 64A(2) or (3)” there shall be substituted “regulation 64A(2), (3) or (3A)”.

## Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on
L.S.
W. G. Purdy
Assistant Secretary
21st January 1994.

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These regulations amend regulation 64A of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 to ensure that a decision on a claim or question shall not be revised on review so as to make benefit payable or increase the amount of benefit payable in respect of that claim or question for any period before the date of the Commissioner’s decision on which the review was based.
Some consequential amendments are also made.

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