# The Social Security (Claims and Payments Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 S.R. 1996/85 · made 8 March 1996 · revised to 10 April 2006 These Regulations amend the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 and the Social Security (Recoupment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990 to make further provision for the payment of benefit by means of a benefit payment card described as an instrument for benefit payment. In particular provision is made for the circumstances in which persons may use the benefit payment card to collect benefit on the beneficiary’s behalf (regulation 2(2)(a) and (c)) and in which they or the beneficiary may be required to accept payment by this means of all the benefits then due (regulation 2(2)(d)). Made under: Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (Section 5, Section 77) ## Introductory text SOCIAL SECURITY; STATUTORY SICK PAY Made 8th March 1996 Coming into operation 4th April 1996 The Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 5(1)(j) and (4) and 77(1) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: ## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Payments Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 4th April 1996. (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 (Claims and Payments) Regulations (1) The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (6). (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) In regulation 21 (direct credit transfer)— (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (b) paragraph (6), shall be omitted. (4) For regulation 29 (payment to a person under age 18) there shall be substituted the following regulation— “Payments to persons under age 18 29 Where benefit is paid to a person under the age of 18 (whether on his own behalf or on behalf of another) the receipt of that person shall be a sufficient discharge to the Department.”. (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 3 Amendment of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations In regulation 9C of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 (payments by the Department) after “instrument of payment” there shall be inserted “, instrument for benefit payment”. ## 4 Amendment of the Social Security (Recoupment) Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 5 Revocations Regulation 3(5) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 and regulation 2(9) of the Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994 are hereby revoked. ## 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 8th March 1996. ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Regulations.) These Regulations amend the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 and the Social Security (Recoupment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990 to make further provision for the payment of benefit by means of a benefit payment card described as an instrument for benefit payment. In particular provision is made for the circumstances in which persons may use the benefit payment card to collect benefit on the beneficiary’s behalf (regulation 2(2)(a) and (c)) and in which they or the beneficiary may be required to accept payment by this means of all the benefits then due (regulation 2(2)(d)). The Regulations also contain consequential revocations. These Regulations correspond to provision contained in regulations made by the Secretary of State for Social Security in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/85 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-etc-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.