Introductory text

Northern Ireland

Housing; Rates; Social Security

Made 18th April 2008

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(1)(d), 131(1), 132(3) and (4)(a) and (b), 133(2)(f), (h) and (i) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992^f1 and Articles 11(6) and 74(1) and (3) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998^f2 and now vested in it^f3.

Regulations 3 and 4 are made with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel^f4.

The Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of regulations 3 and 4 should not be referred to it^f5.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1992 c. 7; section 129(2) was amended by Article 8(2) of the Housing Support Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/3154 (N.I. 8)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)
f2: S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10); Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002
f3: See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
f4: See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
f5: See section 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8)