# The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Social Security (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (“the principal Regulations”), which aligned the work-focused interview regime for incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance, or income support claims on the grounds of incapacity (“specified benefits”) with the work-focused interview regime applying to persons entitled to employment and support allowance.
Regulation 2 extends the principal Regulations to additional categories of persons entitled to specified benefits and also makes transitional provision in the case of persons who were previously subject to the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (“the 2003 Regulations”) so that a reduction imposed under those Regulations will continue to apply.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 15 of the 2003 Regulations, which revoked provisions of the Social Security (Work-focused Interviews) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (“the 2001 Regulations”) subject to certain savings, to discontinue those savings in relation to persons claiming certain specified benefits.
Regulation 4 makes savings and transitional provisions. It provides that persons subject to a reduction under the 2001 Regulations remain subject to those Regulations until the ending of that reduction.
These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 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, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/327/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-benefit-work-focused-interviews-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/note
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