{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/7",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Descriptions of non-contributory benefits.",
  "text": "Non-contributory benefits under this Part of this Act are of the following descriptions, namely—\n(a) attendance allowance;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) carer’s allowance ... ;\n(d) disability living allowance;\n(e) guardian’s allowance;\n(f) retirement pensions of the following categories—\n(i) Category C, payable in certain cases to a widow whose husband was over pensionable age on 5 July 1948 or to a woman whose marriage to a husband who was over pensionable age on that date was terminated otherwise than by his death (with increase for adult ... dependants), and\n(ii) Category D, payable to persons over the age of 80;\n(g) age addition payable, in the case of persons over the age of 80, by way of increase of a retirement pension of any category under this Act or of a pension or allowance to which section 79(2) below applies.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 63(b) repealed (3.11.2000 for specified purposes and 6.4.2001 otherwise) by S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11), art. 76, Sch. 10 Pt. IV; S.R. 2000/332, art. 2(3)(g)(4)(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(c) substituted (21.10.2002 for certain purposes and 1.4.2003 otherwise) by The Deregulation (Carer's Allowance) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/321), arts. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(c) repealed (with effect from 14.8.2010 and with savings until 6.4.2020) by Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13), s. 36(1)(p), Sch. 4 Pt. 2 (with ss. 14(2), 34(2)(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(f)(i) substituted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 66"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(f)(i) repealed (6.4.2003) by Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21), s. 61, Sch. 6; S.I. 2003/962, art. 2(3)(e), Sch. 1 (with savings in S.R. 2003/212, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 63(g) inserted (6.4.2016) by Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5), s. 53(3), Sch. 12 para. 70"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/7/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:23.179265+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}