Explanatory note

This Order gives effect to an Agreement made between the Secretary of State for Social Security and the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland of the one part and the Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man on the other which has the effect of excluding all provisions relating to mobility allowance from the scope of an earlier reciprocal agreement relating to social security entered into by them and their predecessors except for a provision modifying the Social Security Act 1975 so as to permit periods of presence in the Isle of Man to be treated as if they were periods of presence in the United Kingdom for the purposes of entitlement to that allowance.